Multimodality and Active Listenership: A Corpus Approach

by Dawn Knight

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0567175154
• ISBN13: 9780567175151
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"