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This chapter aims to offer the main defining elements of corpus linguistics in order to understand what this field includes. It also aims to lay the theoretical and methodological bases on which the discipline is based. In particular, we will introduce the difference between empirical and rationalist methodologies in linguistics, the important role of computer science for corpus linguistics, the difference between quantitative and qualitative studies, as well as the differences between corpus linguistics and experimental linguistics. In conclusion, we will briefly review the different types of corpora. In the upcoming chapters, this introduction will help us to tackle the research questions that can be answered by means of a corpus study.