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Multimodality and active listenership : a corpus approach / Dawn Knight

Author
Knight, Dawn, 1982-
Published
London ; New York : Continuum International Pub. Group, [2011]
Copyright Date
©2011
Physical Description
1 online resource (xvii, 245 pages) : illustrations
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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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9781441115508 (electronic bk.)
1441115501 (electronic bk.)
9781441167231
1441167234
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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