In This Book, Adolphs And Carter Explore Key Approaches To Work In Spoken Corpus Linguistics. The Book Discusses Some Of The Pioneering Challenges Faced In Designing, Building And Utilising Insights From The Analysis Of Spoken Corpora, Arguing That, Even Though Writing Is Heavily Privileged In Corpus Research, The Spoken Language Can Reveal Patterns Of Language Use That Are Both Different And Distinctive And That This Has Important Implications For The Way In Which Language Is Described, For The Study Of Human Communication And For The Field Of Applied Linguistics As A Whole. Making A Start: Building And Analyzing A Spoken Corpus -- Corpus And Spoken Interaction: Multi-word Units In Spoken English -- From Concordance To Discourse: Responses To Speakers -- Case Studies In Applied Spoken Corpus Linguistics -- Sound Evidence: Prosody And Spoken Corpora -- Moving Beyond The Text -- Developing A Framework For Analysing 'headtalk' And 'handtalk': First Steps -- Future Directions. Svenja Adolphs And Ronald Carter. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 187-202) And Index.