The Spoken Language in a Multimodal Context

Download or read book The Spoken Language in a Multimodal Context written by Jenny Brumme and published by Frank & Timme GmbH. This book was released on 2013-11-20 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recently, research in the Humanities is showing an increasing interest in exactly how language and other semiotic resources support each other. The eighteen articles of this book focus on the interplay between spoken language and other modalities and address a spectrum of cross-modal resources and their functions. They also discuss how multimodal resources are exploited to increase communicative effectiveness and broaden accessibility to knowledge. This is illustrated with examples from discourse types including dramatic, literary and audiovisual texts, Facebook communication and chats, comics and audio-guides. The volume will be of interest to scholars of linguistics, translation studies, museology and education, and for readers interested in the wide array of possibilities that multimodal texts open up for meaning-making.