Multimodality and active listenership [[electronic resource] ] : a corpus approach / / Dawn Knight

• Autore: Knight Dawn <1982->
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York, : Continuum International Pub. Group, 2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (273 p.)
• Disciplina: 401/.4
• Soggetto topico: Modality (Linguistics); Conversation analysis; Communication - Methodology; Semiotics; Oral communication; Visual communication
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Multimodality and active listenership
• ISBN: 1-283-32201-3; 9786613322012; 1-4411-1550-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910819396803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Corpus and discourse. . -Research in corpus and discourse.