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.
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