Multimodality and active listenership : a corpus approach / Dawn Knight.

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Knight, Dawn, 1982-

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Corpus and discourse. Research in corpus and discourse.Publication details: London ; New York : Continuum International Pub. Group, ©2011.Description: 1 online resource (xvii, 245 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781441115508
1441115501

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Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Multimodality and active listenership.DDC classification:

401/.4 23

LOC classification:

P99.4.M6 K55 2011eb

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Contents:

Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; Acronyms; Chapter One Introduction; Chapter Two Corpora Beyond Text -- Developing Multimodal Corpora; Chapter Three Language and Gesture; Chapter Four Backchannels; Chapter Five Analysing Backchanneling Head Nods; Chapter Six A Coding Matrix for Backchanneling Phenomena; Chapter Seven Semi-Automated Head Nod Tracking; Chapter Eight Concluding Remarks; Glossary; Notes; References; Index.

Summary: 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.

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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.

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