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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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Book category Books in English Language linguistics Semantics, discourse analysis, etc

• Full title: Multimodality and Active Listenership
• Subtitle: A Corpus Approach
• Author: Dawn Knight
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272
• EAN: 9780567175151
• ISBN: 0567175154
• ID: 01296661
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Weight: 384 g
• Dimensions: 232 × 160 × 14 mm
• Date of publishing: 28. March 2013

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