Dawn Knight is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Research in Applied Linguistics (CRAL), University of Nottingham, UK.

In face-to-face interaction movements of the head and body can carry meaning that is as important as the words. Yet in the analysis of talk, this is seldom acknowledged or methodically handled. Dawn Knight's clear and persuasive account of how such movements can be systematically recorded and analyzed achieves a major step forward for both discourse analysis and corpus linguistics.

• Acknowledgements Acronyms List of tables List of figures 1. Introduction2. Corpora Beyond Text - Developing Multimodal Corpora 3. Language and Gesture 4. Backchannels 5. Analysing Backchanneling Head Nods 6. A Coding Matrix for Backchanneling Phenomena 7. Semi-automated Head Nod Tracking 8. Concluding Remarks Glossary ReferencesIndex

Dawn Knight is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Research in Applied Linguistics (CRAL), University of Nottingham, UK.

In face-to-face interaction movements of the head and body can carry meaning that is as important as the words. Yet in the analysis of talk, this is seldom acknowledged or methodically handled. Dawn Knight's clear and persuasive account of how such movements can be systematically recorded and analyzed achieves a major step forward for both discourse analysis and corpus linguistics.

• Acknowledgements Acronyms List of tables List of figures 1. Introduction2. Corpora Beyond Text - Developing Multimodal Corpora 3. Language and Gesture 4. Backchannels 5. Analysing Backchanneling Head Nods 6. A Coding Matrix for Backchanneling Phenomena 7. Semi-automated Head Nod Tracking 8. Concluding Remarks Glossary ReferencesIndex