• Defining semantic prosody and methodology
• Language variation and applied linguistics
• The importance of authentic examples
• Semantic prosody and transitivity
• Semantic prosody as a tool for ironic effect
• Irony and/or lack of sincerity
• Semantic prosody and specialized corpora
• Semantic prosody in scientific texts: cause and consequences
• Actively bringing about positive change
• Corpus methodology
• Theoretical corpus linguistics
• The interface between corpus and linguistic theory
• Psycholinguistic and cognitive explorations
• Lexicology and lexicography
• Special uses of semantic prosody