Multimodality and active listenership : a corpus approach
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Bibliographic Information
Multimodality and active listenership : a corpus approach
（Corpus and discourse / series editors, Wolfgang Teubert and Michaela Mahlberg, . Research in corpus and discourse）
Bloomsbury, 2013, c2011
- : pbk
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Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-233) and index
"First published by Continuum 2011"--T.p. verso
"Paperback edition first published 2013"--T.p. verso
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Current corpora are invaluable resources for generating accurate and objective analyses of patterns of language use. However, spoken corpora are effectively mono-modal, presenting data in the same physical medium - text. The reality of a discourse situation is lost in its representation as text. Using multimodal data sets when conducting corpus-based pragmatic analyses is one solution. This book looks at multimodal corpora in some depth, using backchanneling as the conversational feature to be analysed. It provides a bottom-up investigation of the issues and challenges faced at every stage of multimodal corpus construction and analysis, as well as providing an in-depth linguistic analysis of a cross section of multimodal corpus data. The collaborative and co-operative nature of backchannels is highlighted in this book and an adapted pragmatic-functional linguistic coding matrix for the characterisation of backchanneling phenomena is presented. Dawn Knight also looks at possible directions in the construction and use of multimodal corpus linguistics.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Acronyms
List of tables
List of figures
1. Introduction
2. Corpora Beyond Text - Developing Multimodal Corpora
3. Language and Gesture
4. Backchannels
5. Analysing Backchanneling Head Nods
6. A Coding Matrix for Backchanneling Phenomena
7. Semi-automated Head Nod Tracking
8. Concluding Remarks
Glossary
References
Index
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