Multiculturalism As Multimodal Communication

Author : Alin Olteanu
Publisher : Springer
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030178833

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Multiculturalism as Multimodal Communication by Alin Olteanu Pdf

This highly readable book develops a numanistic, and specifically semiotic approach to multiculturalism. It reveals how semiotics provides fresh and valuable insights into multiculturalism: in contrast to the binary logic of dualistic philosophy, semiotic logic does not understand the value of truth in rigid terms of ‘true’ or ‘false’, ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ only. The value of truth resides in meaning, which is a dynamic, evolutionary phenomenon, rooted, nevertheless, in factuality. Drawing on recent developments in biosemiotics, the book presents a theoretical approach to multiculturalism, regarding the lives of people living in multicultural environments. Rather than analyzing political or economic phenomena, it offers a semiotic analysis of multiculturalism and discusses its educational implications. It also invites readers to regard learning as a phenomenon of ecological sign growth and to understand multiculturalism along the same lines. As such, it brings together the life and social sciences and the humanities in a unified perspective, in an approach fitting postmodernism. Developing a postmodern philosophy for contemporary non-experts, which allows distancing from political discourse in favor of a posthumanistic stand, where altruism is seen as an opportunity, not a threat, this book appeals to a wide readership, from scholars seeking state-of-the-art theories to general readers looking for a thought-provoking and enlightening read.

Author : Ulrike Schröder,Elisabetta Adami,Jennifer Dailey-O'Cain
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1003227287

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Multimodal Communication in Intercultural Interaction by Ulrike Schröder,Elisabetta Adami,Jennifer Dailey-O'Cain Pdf

"This collection brings together a range of perspectives on intercultural communication in multimodal interaction, bridging cognitive, social and functional approaches toward promoting cross-disciplinary dialogues and taking research at the intersections of these fields into new directions. The volume brings together conversationalist, socially-oriented, cognitive, and sensory approaches in considering culture as a dynamic construct, co-constituted and (re)negotiated between participants in interaction, and filtering it through a multimodal lens, drawing on a range of examples, such as educational settings or online video platforms. Each chapter offers a unique perspective on 'culture' and 'intercultural' while also situating their own definitions of these labels against those of the other chapters. Taken together, the chapters form a fluid conversation on the nature of intercultural encounters in today's globalized world, as digital environments intertwine with the physical mobility of people, encouraging researchers across these fields to adopt a more holistic multimodal perspective to approach intercultural interaction. This book will be of interest to students and scholars in intercultural communication, multimodality, sociolinguistics, cognitive and interactional linguistics, and semiotics"--

Author : Damian Spiteri
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-09
Category : Education
ISBN : 1137513667

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Multiculturalism, Higher Education and Intercultural Communication by Damian Spiteri Pdf

This book explores how multiculturalism should be promoted throughout higher education due to its benefits for students. It adopts a strengths-based student-centred perspective and offers practical illustrations of how multicultural education can instigate students to understand each other and to relate to each other meaningfully. With the rise of international students in higher education across the globe it is crucial that institutions promote multicultural education for their wider communities.

Author : K. S. Sitaram,Michael H. Prosser
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105025226593

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Civic Discourse by K. S. Sitaram,Michael H. Prosser Pdf

Links the role of civic discourse and communication to their connections to civil society, both domestically and on a global basis.

Author : Nataša Lacković,Alin Olteanu
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2023-09-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000963236

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Relational and Multimodal Higher Education by Nataša Lacković,Alin Olteanu Pdf

This book proposes a relational turn in higher education by conceptualizing knowledge and pedagogy as relational and multimodal, analyzed through three dimensions of relationality: social, technological, and environmental. The volume draws on interdisciplinary approaches that make a case for integrating these interconnected and distinct dimensions in higher education theory and practice. Its novelty lies in combining such a variety of perspectives with Peircean semiotics to explore what it means to learn and live relationally. It emphasizes the importance of critical reflection, rooted in an environmental understanding of knowledge and digital media. This approach integrates materiality, place, and space in higher education, positioning caring, critically reflective and imaginative interactions and interpretations as central for knowledge growth. The volume features practical case studies of relational pedagogy through dialogues with diverse higher education practitioners, which embrace expression and creation through more than one dominant modality of communication and being. The book envisions students and educators as relational agents, with relational awareness and responsibility, aware of their multimodal identities. It highlights how a relational multimodal paradigm can serve as a way forward for universities to address global challenges concerning social, (post)digital, and environmental futures. This innovative book will be of interest to scholars, students, teachers, and policymakers in higher education, semiotics and multimodality, as well as postdigital, sociomaterial and futures studies.

Author : Pnina Fichman,Madelyn Sanfilippo
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 87 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-31
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783031023316

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Multiculturalism and Information and Communication Technology by Pnina Fichman,Madelyn Sanfilippo Pdf

Research on multiculturalism and information and communication technology (ICT) has been important to understanding recent history, planning for future large-scale initiatives, and understanding unrealized expectations for social and technological change. This interdisciplinary area of research has examined interactions between ICT and culture at the group and society levels. However, there is debate within the literature as to the nature of the relationship between culture and technology. In this synthesis, we suggest that the tensions result from the competing ideologies that drive researchers, allowing us to conceptualize the relationship between culture and ICT under three primary models, each with its own assumptions: 1) Social informatics, 2) Social determinism, and 3) Technological determinism. Social informatics views the relationship to be one of sociotechnical interaction, in which culture and ICTs affect each other mutually and iteratively, rather than linearly; the vast majority of the literature approach the relationships between ICT and culture under the assumptions of social informatics. From a socially deterministic perspective, ICTs are viewed as the dependent variable in the equation, whereas, from a technologically deterministic perspective, ICTs are an independent variable. The issues of multiculturalism and ICTs attracted much scholarly attention and have been explored under a myriad of contexts, with substantial literature on global development, social and political issues, business and public administration as well as education and scholarly collaboration. We synthesize here research in the areas of global development, social and political issues, and business collaboration. Finally we conclude by proposing under-explored areas for future research directions.

Author : Dagmar Abendroth-Timmer,Eva-Maria Hennig
Publisher : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Language acquisition
ISBN : 3631629265

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Plurilingualism and Multiliteracies by Dagmar Abendroth-Timmer,Eva-Maria Hennig Pdf

LANGSCAPE is a plurilingual international research network on language acquisition and language education. This volume presents research projects of the network members dealing with identity construction processes of learners and educators in plurilingual, multicultural or media-based learning environments and focuses on issues of language policy.

Author : Gary J. Ockey,Brent A. Green
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789811589522

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Another Generation of Fundamental Considerations in Language Assessment by Gary J. Ockey,Brent A. Green Pdf

This edited book is a collection of papers, written by language assessment professionals to reflect the guidance of Professor Lyle F. Bachman, one of the leading second language assessment experts in the field for decades. It has three sub-themes: assessment of evolving language ability constructs, validity and validation of language assessments, and understanding internal structures of language assessments. It provides theoretical guidelines for practical language assessment challenges. Chapters are written by language assessment researchers who graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, where Professor Bachman trained them including the book editors.

Author : Judith N. Martin,Thomas K. Nakayama
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Cultural awareness
ISBN : 1264364067

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Intercultural Communication in Contexts by Judith N. Martin,Thomas K. Nakayama Pdf

Author : Jamin Pelkey,Paul Cobley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2023-01-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350139411

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Bloomsbury Semiotics Volume 4: Semiotic Movements by Jamin Pelkey,Paul Cobley Pdf

Bloomsbury Semiotics offers a state-of-the-art overview of the entire field of semiotics by revealing its influence on a wide range of disciplinary perspectives. With four volumes spanning theory, method and practice across the disciplines, this definitive reference work emphasizes and strengthens common bonds shared across intellectual cultures, and facilitates the discovery and recovery of meaning across fields. It comprises: Volume 1: History and Semiosis Volume 2: Semiotics in the Natural and Technical Sciences Volume 3: Semiotics in the Arts and Social Sciences Volume 4: Semiotic Movements Written by leading international experts, the chapters provide comprehensive overviews of the history and status of semiotic inquiry across a diverse range of traditions and disciplines. Together, they highlight key contemporary developments and debates along with ongoing research priorities. Providing the most comprehensive and united overview of the field, Bloomsbury Semiotics enables anyone, from students to seasoned practitioners, to better understand and benefit from semiotic insight and how it relates to their own area of study or research. Volume 4: Semiotic Movements explores relationships between semiotics and closely related contemporary movements, strengthening the dialogue and collaboration between them. The movements examined include communication theory, systems theory, digital humanities, phenomenology, translation studies, multimodality studies, cognitive linguistics, and cognitive science.

Author : Joanne Kilgour Dowdy,Rachael Fleischaker
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789004368323

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Text Sets by Joanne Kilgour Dowdy,Rachael Fleischaker Pdf

Written by educators from diverse experiences, Text Sets: Multimodal Learning for Multicultural Students provides ready-to-use multicultural text sets complete with annotations, instructional activities, and multimedia tools, as well as a framework for building and using new sets.

Author : Fred Dervin
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000970883

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Communicating around Interculturality in Research and Education by Fred Dervin Pdf

This book does not instruct the reader how to communicate interculturally but supports them in reflecting on how they can (re-)negotiate and (re-)construct knowledge(s), ideologies and relations around the notion of interculturality. Anchored in the author’s original and thought-provoking perspectives on interculturality, this interdisciplinary and global-minded book explores how communicating around the notion cannot do away with ideologisms, issues of language and translation or the problematization of voice and silence in research and education. Written in an original and stimulating way, relying on different writing genres and styles to ‘mimic’ the dynamism and flexibility of the very notion under review, the author urges us to (un-)voice, scrutinize, nurture and galvanize our ways of dealing with interculturality alone and together with others in academia. The very specific focus of the book, communicating around interculturality (instead of ‘doing’ interculturality), represents a fresh and important move for observing, analyzing, speaking of and contributing to today's complex and divided world. The title is aimed at researchers, students and educators interested in examining and enriching their own takes on interculturality, from a more reflexive and interactive perspective.

Author : Jason Cronbach Van Boom,Thomas-Andreas Põder
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110694925

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Sign, Method and the Sacred by Jason Cronbach Van Boom,Thomas-Andreas Põder Pdf

To what extent can semiotics illuminate key problems in religious studies, given the centrality of symbols, language, and other modes of signification in religion and theology? The volume explores semiotic methodologies for the study of religion, with an emphasis on their critical and creative reconfigurations. The contributors come from different specialties, such as cognitive science, ethnography, linguistics, communication studies, art studies, religious studies, philosophy of religion, and theology. Part One consists of chapters focusing on theoretical perspectives. Part two focuses on applications in texts and case studies while still considering methodological issues. Many specific traditions and perspectives are taken up, such as C. S. Peirce, A. J. Greimas and the Paris School, Juri Lotman’s semiotics of culture, Bruno Latour and material semiotics, linguistic anthropology, social semiotics, cognitive semiotics, embodied and enactive perspectives on language and mind, semiotics of the image and iconicity, multimodality, intertextuality, and semiotics of colors. The book provides readers with a succinct overview of how contemporary semiotics can be useful in understanding a broad array of topics in the study of religion.

Author : Tafazoli, Dara,Romero, Margarida
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-30
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781522518839

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Multiculturalism and Technology-Enhanced Language Learning by Tafazoli, Dara,Romero, Margarida Pdf

The implementation of technological tools in classroom settings provides significant enhancements to the learning process. When utilized properly, students can achieve better knowledge and understanding. Multiculturalism and Technology-Enhanced Language Learning is a critical source of research for the latest perspectives on the intersection of cross-cultural studies and technology in foreign language learning classrooms. Highlighting pertinent topics across a range of relevant coverage, such as mobile learning, game-based learning, and distance education, this book is ideally designed for educators, researchers, academics, linguists, and upper-level students interested in the latest innovations for language education.

Author : George Cheney,George A. Barnett
Publisher : Hampton Press (NJ)
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015059264872

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International and Multicultural Organizational Communication by George Cheney,George A. Barnett Pdf

This book focuses on the current research on and implications of globalization for social organizations and the study of organizational communication. The chapters are wide-ranging in terms of how they approach international and intercultural issues. The authors draw on a wide range of literatures: international development, international migration, postcolonialism, and social movements. The organizations studied represent all major sectors and a variety of national and ethnic contexts and the chapters feature empirical, interpretive and critical postures toward research and engage practical as well as theoretical issues. The authors reflect on the changing shapes of organizations and institutions in today's world.