Multimodal text analysis: A corpus linguistic approach to situated discourse
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Yueguo Gu
Yueguo Gu, Ph.D., is a Research Professor of Linguistics, Head of the Contemporary Linguistics Department at the Institute of Linguistics, The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. His research interest includes pragmatics, discourse analysis, rhetoric, and corpus linguistics. He has contributed quite extensively to several international journals. He is the editor/ author of over 30 textbooks covering English, linguistics, cross-cultural communication, and research methodology. He is co-chief editor of the
Journal of Contemporary Linguistics , and an advisory board member ofJournal of Pragmatics ,Text andPragmatics (IPrA). He is a holder of several honorary chairs, including that of the University of Nottingham, UK.
Abstract
Discourse analysis or conversation analysis approaches audio or video data by way of transcription. It takes sentence or utterance as its point of departure, from which it moves up to discourse or conversation, or down to parts of a sentence or utterance. The present study departs from this mainstream paradigm by outlining and demonstrating a corpus linguistic approach to multimodal text analysis that starts from the analytic unit of social situation, to that of activity type, task/episode, and the participants’ behavior of talking and doing. The primary data consists of video streams with synchronized sounds rather than orthographic transcripts. The segmentation and annotation of nondiscrete streams of a multimodal text are demonstrated in accordance with the latest Text Encoding Initiative (TEI P4).
About the author
Yueguo Gu, Ph.D., is a Research Professor of Linguistics, Head of the Contemporary Linguistics Department at the Institute of Linguistics, The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. His research interest includes pragmatics, discourse analysis, rhetoric, and corpus linguistics. He has contributed quite extensively to several international journals. He is the editor/ author of over 30 textbooks covering English, linguistics, cross-cultural communication, and research methodology. He is co-chief editor of the Journal of Contemporary Linguistics, and an advisory board member of Journal of Pragmatics, Text and Pragmatics (IPrA). He is a holder of several honorary chairs, including that of the University of Nottingham, UK.
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- Multimodal text analysis: A corpus linguistic approach to situated discourse
- Same evidence, different meanings: Transformation of textual evidence in hospital new drugs committees
- A lexico-syntactic analysis of antonym co-occurrence in spoken English
- Appraisal in online discussions of literary texts
