Multimodality and active listenership: a corpus approach

Knight, Dawn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4745-6502 2011. Multimodality and active listenership: a corpus approach. Corpus and discourse, London: Bloomsbury.

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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.

Item Type:	Book
Book Type:	Authored Book
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	English, Communication and Philosophy
Publisher:	Bloomsbury
ISBN:	9781441115508
Last Modified:	28 Oct 2022 10:35
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/78842

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