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Multimodality and active listenership : a corpus approach /

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. Usin...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Knight, Dawn, 1982-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Continuum International Pub. Group, ©2011.
Colección:Corpus and discourse. Research in corpus and discourse.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xvii, 245 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781441115508
1441115501