{"product_id":"9781441107473","title":"Multimodality and Active Listenership: A Corpus Approach","description":"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.","brand":"Bloomsbury USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47123752026352,"sku":"9781441107473","price":40.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781441107473_p0.jpg?v=1763789352","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781441107473","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}