Dawn Knight
List of John Benjamins publications in which Dawn Knight is involved.
Articles
2025 Doing meetings online: Understanding variation in virtual workplace meetings Register and Professional Discourse, Staples, Shelley and Gavin Brookes (eds.), pp. 130–160 | Article
This paper contributes to previous work on workplace registers by presenting an analysis of a corpus of virtual meetings. The Interactional Variation Online corpus is comprised of recordings of virtual meetings from four different organisations. This study describes how each organisation shares… read more
2024 Indicating engagement in online workplace meetings: The role of backchannelling head nods Corpus Approaches to Business Communication, Gillings, Mathew and Susanne Kopf (eds.), pp. 389–416 | Article
Amid COVID-19 and the so-called “digital pivot”, online virtual communication is at the heart of our professional and private lives. As we move into a post-COVID context, the affordances of the digital turn have shown that we can operate professionally online but there is a need for better… read more
2011 Capturing context for heterogeneous corpus analysis: Some first steps Applying Corpus Linguistics, Farr, Fiona and Anne O'Keeffe (eds.), pp. 305–324 | Article
Heterogeneous corpora are emergent multi-modal datasets which comprise a variety of different records of everyday communication, from SMS/MMS messages to interactions in virtual environments, and from GPS data to phone and video calls. By tracking a person’s specific (inter)actions over time and… read more