1st Edition

Spoken Corpus Linguistics From Monomodal to Multimodal

By Svenja Adolphs, Ronald Carter Copyright 2013
206 Pages 19 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

216 Pages 19 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

216 Pages 19 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more
Introduction Part 1: Monomodal Spoken Corpus Analysis 1. Making a start: Building and Analyzing a spoken corpus 2.Corpus and spoken interaction: Multi-word units in spoken English  3. From concordance to discourse: responses to speakers  4. Case Studies in applied spoken corpus linguistics Part 2: Multimodal Spoken Corpus Analysis 5. Sound evidence: prosody and spoken corpora 6. Moving Beyond the Text 7. Developing a framework for analysing 'headtalk' and 'handtalk': First Steps  8. Future Directions

Biography

Svenja Adolphs is Professor of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Nottingham.

Ronald Carter is Professor of Modern English Language at the University of Nottingham.

'The main achievement of the book is to put the development and exploitation of multimodal spoken corpora that integrate and align various data streams more explicitly on the agenda of corpus linguistics, at the same time discussing some of the complex technological challenges that corpus linguists will face in the future.' - Marcus Callies, Universität Bremen, Journal of Pragmatics

"Overall, the book offers a significant representation of corpus work carried out on spoken discourse with a focus on discourse organization and MWUs, while at the same time tracing the development of spoken corpora towards multimodality and inclusion of rich contextual data. The volume will be essential reading for scholars undertaking research in multimodal corpora, but it will be relevant to anyone with an interest in variational pragmatics for the picuture it offers of existing resources and present challenges." - Marina Bondi, Universita di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Language and Dialogue 5:3