Corpus Linguistics for Virtual Workplace Discourse [Paperback]

Corpus Linguistics for Virtual Workplace Discourse provides a thorough and practical step-by-step guide to constructing and analysing a multi-modal corpus of virtual meetings. It draws from original data from video recordings of virtual meetings with a variety of participant profiles from various industries.

List of figures
List of tables
Preface
Acknowledgements
1. Workplace discourse
2. Approaches and methods for analysing virtual workplace discourse
3. Technology-mediated interaction  from voice to video
4.  Constructing a corpus of online meetings
5. How to analyse a multi-modal corpus: A case study of backchannels
6.  Analysing non-verbal communication in virtual workplace discourse
7.  Managing Online Meetings
Index

 

Corpus Linguistics for Virtual Workplace Discourse provides a thorough and practical step-by-step guide to constructing and analysing a multi-modal corpus of virtual meetings. It draws from original data from video recordings of virtual meetings with a variety of participant profiles from various industries, alongside examples of images and transcriptions from this data to illustrate key points.

This cutting-edge volume contextualises the field through previous corpus studies of interaction in a workplace context, as well as a description of various technology mediated interactions, culminating in video-mediated interaction, before outlining the cross-section of these two areas in describing the characteristics of virtual meetings. An overview of multi-modal corpus analysis provides examples and analysis of virtual meetings from a multi-modal perspective, demonstrating what is unique about virtual l3‡