•    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