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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 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. >
List of contents
Acknowledgements
Acronyms
List of tables
List of figures
1. Introduction
2. Corpora Beyond Text - Developing Multimodal Corpora
3. Language and Gesture
4. Backchannels
5. Analysing Backchanneling Head Nods
6. A Coding Matrix for Backchanneling Phenomena
7. Semi-automated Head Nod Tracking
8. Concluding Remarks
Glossary
References
Index
About the author
Dawn Knight
