Spoken Corpus Linguistics: From Monomodal to Multimodal (Routledge Advances in Corpus Linguistics)

by Svenja Adolphs and Ronald Carter

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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.

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  • ISBN10 1138890626
  • ISBN13 9781138890626
  • Publish Date 21 May 2015 (first published 18 July 2013)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Imprint Routledge
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 206
  • Language English