Listenership behaviour -- Intercultural encounters -- Corpus and time -- Organisation of the book -- Listenership behaviours -- Listening culturally -- Language and culture -- Language and context -- Language and identity -- Pragmatics in cultures -- Conversation and discourse -- Structure of conversation -- Conversational gesture -- Discursive practice -- Discourse framework -- A time-aligned multimodal corpus -- Exploring spoken corpora -- Developing a multimodal corpus -- Modifying multimodal data -- Examining methodologies -- Global pattern analysis on the ten-minute data -- Turn structural analysis on the ten-minute data -- The scope of the analysis -- Exploring global patterns in listenership behaviour -- Word count and time length -- Placement of response tokens -- Turn structure and listenership behaviours -- Verbal and visual response tokens -- Turn-structural episodes -- Preferences in turn size and placement of response tokens -- Concluding remarks -- Corpus and time : possibilities and limitations -- Constructing context and social identities -- Discourse-pragmatic research with corpora -- Appendices.