Mediation And Multimodal Meaning Making In Digital Environments

Author : Ilaria Moschini,Maria Grazia Sindoni
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000471205

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Mediation and Multimodal Meaning Making in Digital Environments by Ilaria Moschini,Maria Grazia Sindoni Pdf

This collection explores the mediation of a wide range of processes, texts, and practices in contemporary digital environments through the lens of a multimodal theory of communication. Bringing together contributions from renowned scholars in the field, the book builds on the notion that any form of digital communication inherently presents a rich combination of different semiotic modes and resources as a jumping-off point from which to critically reflect on digital mediation from three different perspectives. The first section looks at social and semiotic practices and the implications of their mediation on artistic production, cultural heritage, and commerce. The second part of the volume focuses on dynamics of awareness, cognition, and identity formation in participants to digitally-mediated communicative processes. The book’s final section considers the impact of mediation on shaping new and different types of textualities and genres in digital spaces. The book will be of particular interest to scholars, researchers and students in multimodality, digital communication, social semiotics, and media studies.

Author : Anna Franca Plastina
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781527580497

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Analysing Health Discourse in Digital Environments by Anna Franca Plastina Pdf

This collection explores the changing nature of health discourse in different digital environments. It offers sustained discourse analyses of a number of interactions generated through the affordances and constraints of these new social contexts, which are affecting health communication in subtle and profound ways.

Author : Maria Grazia Sindoni
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781009286930

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Multimodality and Translanguaging in Video Interactions by Maria Grazia Sindoni Pdf

This Element presents and critically discusses video-mediated communication by combining theories and empirical methods of multimodal studies and translanguaging. Since Covid-19 gained momentum, video-based interactions have become more and more ingrained in private and public lives and to the point of being fully incorporated in a wide range of community practices in personal, work and educational environments. The meaning making of video communication results from the complex, situationally based and culturally influenced and interlaced components of different semiotic resources and practices. These include the use of speech, writing, translingual practices, gaze behaviour, proxemics and kinesics patterns, as well as forms of embodied interaction. The Element aims at unpacking these resources and at interpreting how they make meanings to improve and encourage active and responsible participation in the current digital scenarios.

Author : Maria Grazia Sindoni,Ilaria Moschini
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000505467

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Multimodal Literacies Across Digital Learning Contexts by Maria Grazia Sindoni,Ilaria Moschini Pdf

This collection critically considers the question of how learning and teaching should be conceived, understood, and approached in light of the changing nature of learning scenarios and new pedagogies in this current age of multimodal digital texts, practices, and communities. The book takes the concept of digital artifacts as being composed of multiple meaning-making semiotic resources, such as visuals, music, and design, as its point of departure to explore how diverse communities interact with these tools and develop and explore their understanding of digital practices in learning contexts. The first section of the volume examines different case studies in which involved participants learn to grapple with the introduction of digital tools for learning in children’s early years of schooling. The second section extends the focus to secondary and higher education settings as digital learning tools grow more complex as do students, parents, and teachers’ interactions with them and the subsequent need for new pedagogies to rethink these multimodal artifacts. A final section reflects on the implications of new multimodal tools, technologies, and pedagogies for teachers, such as on teacher training and community building among educators. In its in-depth look at multimodal approaches to learning as meaning-making in a digital world, this book will be of interest to students and scholars in multimodality, English language teaching, digital communication, and education.

Author : Inmaculada Pineda,Rino Bosso
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2023-06-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000882858

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Virtual English as a Lingua Franca by Inmaculada Pineda,Rino Bosso Pdf

This collection offers a comprehensive account of the development of intercultural communication strategies through Virtual English as a lingua franca, reflecting on the ways in which we make pragmatic meaning in today’s technology-informed globalized world. The volume places an emphasis on analyzing transmodal, trans-semiotic, and transcultural discourse practices in online spaces, providing a counterpoint to existing ELF research which has leaned towards unpacking formal features of ELF communication in face-to-face interactions. The chapters explore how these practices are characterized and then further sustained via non-verbal semiotic resources, drawing on data from a global range of empirical studies. The book prompts further reflection on readers’ own experiences in online settings and the challenges of VELF while also supplying educators in these contexts with the analytical resources to better bridge the gap between formal and informal learning. Highlighting the dynamic complexity of online intercultural communication in the twenty-first century, this book is a valuable resource for students and scholars in applied linguistics, language education, digital communication, and intercultural communication.

Author : Sabine Tan,Marissa K. L. E
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000772371

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Discourses, Modes, Media and Meaning in an Era of Pandemic by Sabine Tan,Marissa K. L. E Pdf

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected all aspects of our everyday lives – from the political to the economic to the social. Using a multimodal discourse analysis approach, this dynamic collection examines various discourses, modes and media in circulation during the early stages of the pandemic, and how these have impacted our daily lives in terms of the various meanings they express. Examples include how national and international news organisations communicate important information about the virus and the crisis, the public’s reactions to such communications, the resultant (counter-)discourses as manifested in social media posts and memes, as well as the impact social distancing policies and mobility restrictions have had on people’s communication and interaction practices. The book offers a synoptic view of how the pandemic was communicated, represented and (re-)contextualised across different spheres, and ultimately hopes to help account for the significant changes we are continuing to witness in our everyday lives as the pandemic unfolds. This volume will appeal primarily to scholars in the field of (multimodal) discourse analysis. It will also be of interest to researchers and graduate students in other fields whose work focuses on the use of multimodal artefacts for communication and meaning making.

Author : Prof. Dr.-Ing. Carsten Busch,Prof. Dr. Tilo Wendler ,Martin Steinicke i
Publisher : Academic Conferences International limited
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781914587191

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ECEL 2021 20th European Conference on e-Learning by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Carsten Busch,Prof. Dr. Tilo Wendler ,Martin Steinicke i Pdf

Author : Fei Victor Lim,Lydia Tan-Chia
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000781830

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Designing Learning for Multimodal Literacy by Fei Victor Lim,Lydia Tan-Chia Pdf

Designing Learning for Multimodal Literacy addresses the need to design learning for multimodal literacy in a world that is increasingly saturated with print and digital media. In the current age, communication and interactions on social media are seldom made with language alone but are often accompanied with emojis, images, and videos, making meanings multimodally. Young people, including children, are also increasingly active in making videos of themselves, their ideas, and their experiences as part of their out-of-school literacy activities. In particular, for language teachers, the present shifts in our world require that teachers re-examine what they teach and how they can meaningfully and effectively teach the students in their classes today. At 8 years old, Alden created his own rap music video and shared it with the world. He wrote his own lyrics and set it against the music he remixed and meshed from a music download site. Alden is in your classroom today. As his teacher, what would you teach him? How would you engage him? Alden, and children like him, is the inspiration for why the authors have written this book. The changing times and changing learners place a demand on educators to continually reflect on what and how teachers are teaching their students – to ensure that learning in school remains relevant, relatable, and prepares them for the world of the future. Lim’s book outlines how teachers can design learning for multimodal literacy. It is a result of a collaboration between an educational researcher and a curriculum developer, and offers practical resources for practitioners but also design principles and considerations based on practice with a range of students to inform and inspire academics and postgraduate students. It is poised to contribute to the global conversation and interest on how educators can reflect on the zeitgeist of the digital age and design learning for multimodal literacy.

Author : Reka R. Jablonkai,Eniko Csomay
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 818 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2022-07-29
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000568936

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The Routledge Handbook of Corpora and English Language Teaching and Learning by Reka R. Jablonkai,Eniko Csomay Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of Corpora and English Language Teaching and Learning provides a wide-ranging and authoritative overview of the latest developments and innovations in how corpus approaches, corpus technologies, and corpus data can inform and transform English language teaching and learning. Featuring a broad range of international experts, the Handbook presents state-of-the-art scholarship and inspires new avenues for research focusing on six key areas: English language teaching and learning informed by language corpora; corpora in syllabus and materials design; corpora and English for specific and academic purposes; learner corpora for English language teaching; data-driven learning; and corpora and corpus tools for language teaching. Unique to this pioneering volume, the authors cover key areas at the cross-roads of corpus research and English language teaching by drawing on cutting-edge corpus applications, methods, and pedagogical approaches, hence, bridging the research–practice gap in the field. This Handbook is a collection of novel contributions offering essential reading for those researching and studying English language teaching and learning through the application of corpus approaches.

Author : Veronica Bonsignori,Belinda Crawford Camiciottoli,Denise Filmer
Publisher : Vernon Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781648893995

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Analyzing Multimodality in Specialized Discourse Settings by Veronica Bonsignori,Belinda Crawford Camiciottoli,Denise Filmer Pdf

Contemporary society has witnessed radical changes in the field of communications in terms of how messages and meanings are disseminated. Digitalization and the Internet have signalled an exponential rise in the circulation of multimodal texts in which different semiotic resources are orchestrated together to construct meaning in all areas of social life, across languages and cultures, and in diverse specialized discourse domains. This has foregrounded the need to examine the semiotic functions, affordances, and issues at stake in a range of multimodal discourse forms, while simultaneously highlighting the importance of critical multimodal literacy in audiences and learners. This volume develops and extends pioneering research on the intersection between multimodality and specialized discourse. Eight newly commissioned studies offer innovative perspectives on multimodal research methodologies and applications in a variety of ESP (English for Specific Purposes) contexts for practitioners and scholars alike. The volume offers a glimpse at future directions in this dynamic and ever-evolving area of investigation focusing on the synergy between verbal and non-verbal modes of communication in the digital age. Each chapter explores an original area of application: academic, economic, scientific, marketing, legal, medical, political, and tourism. The contributors approach multimodality from a range of theoretical and methodological viewpoints including synchronic and diachronic corpus-based and corpus-aided studies, critical discourse analysis, and systemic functional linguistics. Analytical tools such as multimodal (critical) discourse analysis, multimodal transcription, and multimodal annotation software capable of representing the interplay of different semiotic modes - speech, intonation, direction of gaze, facial expressions, gesturing, and spatial positioning of interlocutors - are employed. The diversity of research strands contained in the volume illustrates just some of the vast areas of multimodal knowledge dissemination that are still unmapped. As a cornerstone of communication, multimodality needs exploring in all its facets. These contributions aim to further that cause.

Author : Germán Canale
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000632835

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A Multimodal and Ethnographic Approach to Textbook Discourse by Germán Canale Pdf

This book offers a new framework for analysing textbook discourse, bridging the gap between contemporary ethnographic approaches and multimodality for a contextually sensitive approach which considers the multiplicity of multimodal resources involved in the production and use of textbooks. The volume makes the case for textbook discourse studies to go beyond studies of textual representation and critically consider the ways in which textbook discourse is situated within wider social practices. Each chapter considers a different social semiotic practice in which textbook and textbook discourse is involved: representation, communication, interaction, learning, and recontextualization. In bringing together this work with contemporary ethnography scholarship, the book offers a comprehensive toolkit for further research on textbook discourse and pushes the field forward into new directions. This innovative book will be of particular interest to students and scholars in discourse analysis, multimodality, social semiotics, language and communication, and curriculum studies.

Author : Gitte Rasmussen,Theo van Leeuwen
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000934274

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Multimodality and Social Interaction in Online and Offline Shopping by Gitte Rasmussen,Theo van Leeuwen Pdf

This collection brings together social semiotic, ethnographic, and conversation analytic approaches to multimodality in global studies of shopping, drawing on the rich diversity of the latest multimodal methods to critically reflect on shopping as a cornerstone of contemporary social life. The volume explores shopping as an area of study in its own right, with the buying and selling of goods and services a fundamental part of the social and cultural life of human communities for centuries. The book looks at both online and offline shopping, examining it as both everyday multi-sensorial practice and its translation into the interactive text and imagery that comprise the online shopping experience, from London street markets to Japanese grocery shops to Danish supermarkets to worldwide online shopping sites. Highlighting the diversity of modern multimodal approaches through contributions from established scholars, the book critically surveys both the challenges and opportunities in the embodied interactions between buyers and sellers and how these points of connection have been translated and will continue to transform in the age of algorithms and emergent technologies. This book will appeal to students and scholars interested in multimodality, multimodal conversation analysis, social semiotics, social interaction, and retail studies.

Author : A. Jesús Moya-Guijarro,Eija Ventola
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000456066

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A Multimodal Approach to Challenging Gender Stereotypes in Children’s Picture Books by A. Jesús Moya-Guijarro,Eija Ventola Pdf

This collection offers a thorough treatment of the ways in which the verbal and visual semiotic modes interrelate toward promoting gender equality and social inclusion in children’s picture books. Drawing on cutting-edge theoretical work in multimodality, including multimodal cognitive linguistics, multimodal discourse analysis, and visual social semiotics, the book expands on descriptive-oriented studies to offer a more linguistically driven perspective on children’s picture books. The volume explores the choice afforded to and the lexico-semantic and discursive strategies employed by writers and illustrators in conveying representational, interpersonal, and textual meanings in the verbal and non-verbal components in these narratives in order to challenge gender stereotypes and promote the social inclusion of same-sex parent families. This book will be of particular interest to students and scholars in multimodality, discourse analysis, social semiotics, and children’s literature. Chapters 1 & 8 of this book are freely available as downloadable Open Access PDFs under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com.

Author : Sophia Diamantopoulou,Sigrid Ørevik
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000529180

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Multimodality in English Language Learning by Sophia Diamantopoulou,Sigrid Ørevik Pdf

This edited volume provides research-based knowledge on the use, production and assessment of multimodal texts in the teaching and learning of English as an Additional Language (EAL). The book reflects growing interest in research on EAL, with increasing numbers of learners of English worldwide and the growing relevance of EAL to numerous education systems. The volume examines different aspects of English from a multimodal perspective, showcasing empirical research from across five continents and all three levels of education. Applying frameworks based on Multimodal Social Semiotics and Systemic Functional Linguistics, chapters focus on the use and affordances of multimodal texts in pedagogy, literature, culture, text production, assessment and curriculum development connected to EAL. Directing attention to the significance of modes beyond speech and writing in EAL, the volume provides a wide range of perspectives and experiences that can be applied more widely and inspire other practices in the global and diverse field of EAL teaching, learning and assessment. This collection will be of interest to scholars in multimodality, language education, and teacher education.

Author : Carmen Pérez-Llantada,María-José Luzón
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000684582

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Genre Networks by Carmen Pérez-Llantada,María-José Luzón Pdf

This innovative book employs genre as a fruitful lens for exploring the complexity of science communication online and the new genre assemblages formed at the interface of multiple genres in digital environments. Pérez-Llantada and Luzón argue for a conceptualization of Science 2.0 that views digital genres in conjunction with other genres, accounting for the ways in which diverse Internet users choose different points of entry for accessing information on science of varied depth, views, and perspectives. Taking Swales’s conceptualization of forms of genre collectivity as its point of departure, the book puts forward this new understanding of multisemiotic genre assemblages in digital science communication, considering dimensions of hypertextuality, intertextuality, and multimodality in the interdependent relations between genres. The volume draws on a range of case studies each with a distinct genre assemblage and social agenda, exploring such areas as high stakes science, open peer review, science reproducibility, citizen science, and social media networking. Offering new directions for future research on genre studies and digital science communication, Genre Networks: Intersemiotic Relations in Digital Science Communication will be of interest to scholars in these fields, as well as those working in multimodality, language and communication, and languages for academic purposes.