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 backchanneling...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1441167234
• ISBN13: 9781441167231
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: Continuum
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.5"