Dawn Knight is Research Assistant (CRAL) and Part-time Tutor at the 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.

• Part I: A Brief History of Corpus Linguistics; 1. Introduction; 2. Monomodal Corpus Linguistics; 3. Multimodal Corpus Linguistics; Part II: Communication 'Beyond the Text'; 4. Language and Gesture; 5. Backchannels; 6. Analysing Language and Gesture in Multimodal Corpora; 7. A Coding Matrix for Backchanneling Phenomena; Part III: The Future of Multimodal Corpus Linguistics; 8. Semi-Automated Gesture Tracking; 9. Ubiquitous Corpora; Bibliography; Index.

Dawn Knight is Research Assistant (CRAL) and Part-time Tutor at the 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.

• Part I: A Brief History of Corpus Linguistics; 1. Introduction; 2. Monomodal Corpus Linguistics; 3. Multimodal Corpus Linguistics; Part II: Communication 'Beyond the Text'; 4. Language and Gesture; 5. Backchannels; 6. Analysing Language and Gesture in Multimodal Corpora; 7. A Coding Matrix for Backchanneling Phenomena; Part III: The Future of Multimodal Corpus Linguistics; 8. Semi-Automated Gesture Tracking; 9. Ubiquitous Corpora; Bibliography; Index.

Dawn Knight is Research Assistant (CRAL) and Part-time Tutor at the 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.

• Part I: A Brief History of Corpus Linguistics; 1. Introduction; 2. Monomodal Corpus Linguistics; 3. Multimodal Corpus Linguistics; Part II: Communication 'Beyond the Text'; 4. Language and Gesture; 5. Backchannels; 6. Analysing Language and Gesture in Multimodal Corpora; 7. A Coding Matrix for Backchanneling Phenomena; Part III: The Future of Multimodal Corpus Linguistics; 8. Semi-Automated Gesture Tracking; 9. Ubiquitous Corpora; Bibliography; Index.