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Spoken Corpus Linguistics: From Monomodal to Multimodal (Routledge Advances in Corpus Linguistics) by Svenja Adolphs, Ronald Carter is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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

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Author

Svenja Adolphs, Ronald Carter

Publisher

Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9781299726543

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Linguistics, Language Learning, Literary Fiction