UID:
edocfu_9959231921002883
Format:
1 online resource (273 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-283-32201-3
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9786613322012
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1-4411-1550-1
Series Statement:
Research in corpus and discourse
Content:
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
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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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
,
English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-567-17515-4
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-4411-6723-4
Language:
English
