Review: Svenja Adolphs and Ronald Carter. Spoken corpus linguistics. From monomodal to multimodal (original) (raw)

Svenja Adolphs and Ronald Carter propose a framework for transitioning from monomodal to multimodal corpus analysis in spoken linguistics, emphasizing the importance of incorporating nonverbal elements such as gestures and prosody. Their book presents both traditional monomodal approaches and innovative multimodal insights, advocating for the enhancement of spoken corpus linguistics through the integration of diverse data streams. While the first part of the book is critiqued for its basic treatment of theory, the second part offers valuable recommendations for future research and the development of new methods to analyze complex communicative contexts.