1. Perspectives on keywords and keyness: An introduction (by Bondi, Marina); 2. Section I. Exploring keyness; 3. Three concepts of keywords (by Stubbs, Michael); 4. Problems in investigating keyness, or clearing the undergrowth and marking out trails... (by Scott, Mike); 5. Closed-class keywords and corpus-driven discourse analysis (by Groom, Nicholas); 6. Hyperlinks: Keywords or key words? (by Tyrkko, Jukka); 7. Web Semantics vs the Semantic Web?: The problem of keyness (by Rastier, Francois); 8. Section II. Keyness in specialised discourse; 9. Identifying aboutgrams in engineering texts (by Warren, Martin); 10. Keywords and phrases in political speeches (by Milizia, Denise); 11. Key words and key phrases in a corpus of travel writing: From Early Modern English literature to contemporary "blooks" (by Gerbig, Andrea); 12. History v. marketing: Keywords as a clue to disciplinary epistemology (by Malavasi, Donatella); 13. Metaphorical keyness in specialised corpora (by Philip, Gill); 14. Section III. Critical and educational perspectives; 15. A contrastive analysis of keywords in newspaper articles on the "Kyoto Protocol" (by Bassi, Erica); 16. Keywords in Korean national consciousness: A corpus-based analysis of school textbooks (by Fraysse-Kim, Soon Hee); 17. General spoken language and school language: Key words and discourse patterns in history textbooks (by Leone, Paola); 18. Index