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Book: Listenership Behaviours in Intercultural Encounters

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Title: Listenership Behaviours in Intercultural Encounters
Subtitle: A time-aligned multimodal corpus analysis
Series Title: Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 236

Publication Year: 2013
Publisher: John Benjamins
http://www.benjamins.com/

Book URL: http://benjamins.com/catalog/pbns.236

Author: Keiko Tsuchiya

Electronic: ISBN:  9789027271013 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 143.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027271013 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 95.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027271013 Pages:  Price: S. Korean won 80.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027256416 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 100.70
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027256416 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 80.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027256416 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 143.00

Abstract:

How do people listen in a conversation, especially in an intercultural
setting, and how do they shift from listener to speaker in the particular
context? This book investigates listenership behaviours of a tutor and a
student in the context of academic supervision sessions at a university in the
UK, comparing British tutor – British student conversations with British tutor
– Japanese student conversations in English. A new research methodology, a
time-aligned multimodal corpus analysis, is introduced for analysing
listenership and turn-taking structure, synthesising visual data with verbal
data in timeline. The method also integrates discourse-pragmatic and
conversation analytic approaches with the corpus-based analysis. This work
reports strategies in use of response tokens for framework shifts and
multi-functional nature of hand gestures observed in the conversations.
Therefore, this book is highly relevant for researchers and postgraduate
students, who study pragmatic and discursive practice in intercultural
settings using multimodal corpora.