RSSBook: Multimodality and Active Listenership
Jul 07
Title: Multimodality and Active Listenership
Subtitle: A Corpus Approach
Series Title: Corpus and Discourse
Publication Year: 2013
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing (formerly The Continuum International Publishing Group)
http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/
Book URL: http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/multimodality-and-active-listenership-9780567175151/
Author: Dawn Knight
Paperback: ISBN: 9780567175151 Pages: 272 Price: U.K. £ 24.99
Abstract:
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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