Spoken Corpus Linguistics

2013-07-18

In this book, Adolphs and Carter explore key approaches to work in spoken corpus linguistics.

Author: Svenja Adolphs

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781134056705

Category: Language Arts & Disciplines

Page: 235

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In this book, Adolphs and Carter explore key approaches to work in spoken corpus linguistics. The book discusses some of the pioneering challenges faced in designing, building and utilising insights from the analysis of spoken corpora, arguing that, even though writing is heavily privileged in corpus research, the spoken language can reveal patterns of language use that are both different and distinctive and that this has important implications for the way in which language is described, for the study of human communication and for the field of applied linguistics as a whole. Spoken Corpus Linguistics is divided into two main parts. The first part sets the scene by discussing traditional and new approaches to monomodal spoken corpus analysis, with a focus on discourse organisation and conversational interaction and with particular attention to forms of language such as discourse markers and multi-word units, areas of language not conventionally described but which are argued to be of importance to spoken language description and to spoken language learning and teaching research within the field of applied linguistics. The second part of the book moves into the multimodal domain and focuses on alignments between language and gesture in a spoken corpus, with particular reference to gestural movements of the head and the hand and to the different ways in which prosody might be used to enhance communication. A brief final chapter discusses new developments in the area of spoken corpus research, including the relationship between language and context, emerging research methods as well as discussing possible shifts in scope and emphasis in spoken corpus research in the future.
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Multimodality and Active Listenership

2011-10-13

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.

Author: Dawn Knight

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

ISBN: 9781441107473

Category: Language Arts & Disciplines

Page: 272

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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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Multimodal Corpus Linguistics

2007-05

Both corpus linguistics and multimodality are rapidly growing fields. The first book to combine these two fascinating areas it makes use of case studies to increase accessibility and is written by respected authorities in the field.

Author: Anthony Baldry

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 0415371937

Category: Language Arts & Disciplines

Page: 256

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Both corpus linguistics and multimodality are rapidly growing fields. The first book to combine these two fascinating areas it makes use of case studies to increase accessibility and is written by respected authorities in the field. It will find a ready audience amongst scholars of linguistics.
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Multimodal News Analysis across Cultures

2020-09-30

Corpus-based discourse analysts are becoming increasingly interested in the incorporation of non-linguistic data, for example through corpus-assisted multimodal discourse analysis.

Author: Helen Caple

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

ISBN: 9781108889667

Category: Language Arts & Disciplines

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Corpus-based discourse analysts are becoming increasingly interested in the incorporation of non-linguistic data, for example through corpus-assisted multimodal discourse analysis. This Element applies this new approach in relation to how news values are discursively constructed through language and photographs. Using case studies of news from China and Australia, the Element presents a cross-linguistic comparison of news values in national day reporting. Discursive news values analysis (DNVA) has so far been mainly applied to English-language data. This Element offers a new investigation of Chinese DNVA and provides momentum to scholars around the world who are already adopting DNVA to their local contexts. With its focus on national days across two very different cultures, the Element also contributes to research on national identity and cross-linguistic corpus linguistics.
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Spoken and Written Discourse in Online Interactions

2014-04-24

This is nothing new, but here Sindoni asserts that all these modes are integrated in unprecedented ways, enacting new interactional patterns and new systems of interpretation among web users.

Author: Maria Grazia Sindoni

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781135068813

Category: Language Arts & Disciplines

Page: 263

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Winner of the AIA Book Prize for a research monograph in the field of English Language and Linguistics (2016) Common patterns of interactions are altered in the digital world and new patterns of communication have emerged, challenging previous notions of what communication actually is in the contemporary age. Online configurations of interaction, such as video chats, blogging, and social networking practices demand profound rethinking of the categories of linguistic analysis, given the blurring of traditional distinctions between oral and written discourse in digital texts. This volume reconsiders underlying linguistic and semiotic frameworks of analysis of spoken and written discourse in the light of the new paradigms of online communication, in keeping with a multimodal corpus linguistics theoretical framework. Typical modes of online interaction encompass speech, writing, gesture, movement, gaze, and social distance. This is nothing new, but here Sindoni asserts that all these modes are integrated in unprecedented ways, enacting new interactional patterns and new systems of interpretation among web users. These "non verbal" modes have been sidelined by mainstream linguistics, whereas accounting for the complexity of new genres and making sense of their educational impact is high on this volume’ s agenda. Sindoni analyzes other new phenomena, ranging from the intimate sphere (i.e. video chats, personal blogs or journals on social networking websites) to the public arena (i.e. global-scale transmission of information and knowledge in public blogs or media-sharing communities), shedding light on the rapidly changing global web scenario.
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A Practical Handbook of Corpus Linguistics

2021-05-04

27), although as the corpus was constructed to support the automatic tracking and classification of gestures, ... Work in multimodal corpus linguistics is, in contrast, a relatively new field of research, having only been established in ...

Author: Magali Paquot

Publisher: Springer Nature

ISBN: 9783030462161

Category: Philosophy

Page: 686

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This handbook is a comprehensive practical resource on corpus linguistics. It features a range of basic and advanced approaches, methods and techniques in corpus linguistics, from corpus compilation principles to quantitative data analyses. The Handbook is organized in six Parts. Parts I to III feature chapters that discuss key issues and the know-how related to various topics around corpus design, methods and corpus types. Parts IV-V aim to offer a user-friendly introduction to the quantitative analysis of corpus data: for each statistical technique discussed, chapters provide a practical guide with R and come with supplementary online material. Part VI focuses on how to write a corpus linguistic paper and how to meta-analyze corpus linguistic research. The volume can serve as a course book as well as for individual study. It will be an essential reading for students of corpus linguistics as well as experienced researchers who want to expand their knowledge of the field.
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Corpus Linguistics for Pragmatics

2018-10-10

already larger multimodal corpus is Nottingham Multimodal Corpus (NMMC), which contains 250,000 words sourced from lectures and supervising sessions at the University of Nottingham (Adolphs & Carter 2013). Yet larger is the Corpus of ...

Author: Christoph Rühlemann

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9780429835605

Category: Language Arts & Disciplines

Page: 210

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Corpus Linguistics for Pragmatics provides a practical and comprehensive introduction to the growing field of corpus pragmatics. Taking a hands-on approach to showcase the applications of corpora in the exploration of core topics within pragmatics, this book: • covers six key areas of corpus-pragmatic research including speech acts, deixis, pragmatic markers, evaluation, conversational structure, and multimodality; • demonstrates the use of freely-available corpora, corpus interfaces and corpus analysis tools to conduct original pragmatic analyses; • is accompanied by an e-resource which hosts multimodal data sets for additional exercises. Featuring case studies and practical tasks within each chapter, Corpus Linguistics for Pragmatics is an essential guide for students and researchers studying or conducting their own corpus-based research in pragmatics.
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Corpus Linguistics and Translation Tools for Digital Humanities

2022-07-14

Multimodal Discourse Analysis, 83–108, London and New York: Continuum. Baldry, A. (2005), A Multimodal Approach to Text Studies in English. The Role of MCA in Multimodal Concordancing and Multimodal Corpus Linguistics, ...

Author: Stefania M. Maci

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

ISBN: 9781350275249

Category: Language Arts & Disciplines

Page: 256

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Presenting the digital humanities as both a domain of practice and as a set of methodological approaches to be applied to corpus linguistics and translation, chapters in this volume provide a novel and original framework to triangulate research for pursuing both scientific and educational goals within the digital humanities. They also highlight more broadly the importance of data triangulation in corpus linguistics and translation studies. Putting forward practical applications for digging into data, this book is a detailed examination of how to integrate quantitative and qualitative approaches through case studies, sample analysis and practical examples.
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