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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.

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In face-to-face interaction movements of the head and bodycan carry meaning that is as important as the words. Yet in the analysis oftalk, this is seldom acknowledged or methodically handled. Dawn Knight's clearand persuasive account of how such movements can be systematically recorded andanalyzed achieves a major step forward for both discourse analysis and corpuslinguistics.--,

In face-to-face interaction movements of the head and bodycan carry meaning that is as important as the words. Yet in the analysis oftalk, this is seldom acknowledged or methodically handled. Dawn Knight's clearand persuasive account of how such movements can be systematically recorded andanalyzed achieves a major step forward for both discourse analysis and corpuslinguistics.--Professor Guy Cook, Centre for Language and Communication, The Open University, UK

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Dawn Knight is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Research in Applied Linguistics (CRAL), University of Nottingham, UK.

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