Download PDF by Arianna Maiorani: Multimodal Epistemologies: Towards an Integrated Framework

By Arianna Maiorani
ISBN-10: 0415825237
ISBN-13: 9780415825238
This quantity develops a brand new multimodal semiotic method of the examine of conversation, analyzing how multimodal discourse is construed transmedially and interculturally and the way new applied sciences and cultural stances tell communicative contexts internationally.
It contributes to present theoretical debates within the disciplines of semiotics, linguistics, multimodality, and pragmatics, in addition to these points of pedagogy and movie stories that interact with the notions of textual content and narrative by way of addressing questions corresponding to: How can we examine multimedia conversation? How will we comprise the impression of latest media applied sciences into the learn of Linguistics and Semiotics? How can we construe tradition in sleek communique? How beneficial are the present multidisciplinary techniques to multimodal communication?
Through the research of particular case experiences which are constructed inside of varied educational disciplines and which draw on a variety of theoretical frameworks, the objective of this e-book is to supply a foundation for an overarching framework that may be utilized by means of students and scholars with diverse educational and cultural backgrounds.