Multimodality and Active Listenership - A Corpus Approach (Paperback, Nippod Ed)

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.

General

Imprint:	Bloomsbury Academic
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Corpus and Discourse
Release date:	March 2013
First published:	March 2013
Authors:	Dawn Knight
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	272
Edition:	Nippod Ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-567-17515-1
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Semantics (meaning) > Discourse analysis Promotions
LSN:	0-567-17515-4
Barcode:	9780567175151

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