Part I: A Brief History of Corpus Linguistics; 1. Introduction; 2. Monomodal Corpus Linguistics; 3. Multimodal Corpus Linguistics; Part II: Communication 'Beyond the Text'; 4. Language and Gesture; 5. Backchannels; 6. Analysing Language and Gesture in Multimodal Corpora; 7. A Coding Matrix for Backchanneling Phenomena; Part III: The Future of Multimodal Corpus Linguistics; 8. Semi-Automated Gesture Tracking; 9. Ubiquitous Corpora; Bibliography; Index.