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Multimodality

Multimodality. Starting points. Language is one mode among many others Modes are always socially and culturally shaped Including or excluding modes in your analysis has epistemological implications. Language is one mode among many others.

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Multimodality

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  1. Multimodality

  2. Starting points • Language is one mode among many others • Modes are always socially and culturally shaped • Including or excluding modes in your analysis has epistemological implications

  3. Language is one mode among many others

  4. The use of modes is always socially and culturally shaped

  5. Activities shape and are shaped by modal configurations

  6. Including or excluding modes in your analysis has epistemological implications

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  8. Displaying engagement • R, through directing and maintaining his gaze, turning his body, using ‘open’ gestures at the interviewee, keeping notes, and his talk expresses/realises his lead role. • D, through the use of his gaze and posture being directed more at the other interviewer than at the interviewee, appropriates a different role, one that sustains the lead role of the interviewer on the right. • Pippa uses gaze, head tilt and posture to direct her orientation. For instance, she usually gazes at the right interviewer until he starts making notes, in which case she turns her gaze to Daniel. • So gaze patterns and body posture suggest who engages with whom and with what intensity

  9. How you might understand your data differently with a multimodal lens • Reinforcing meanings: e.g. suggestions of unequal power relations across different modes • Modification of meanings: e.g. ‘irony’ in speech modified by facial expressions • Realization of different meanings: e.g. ‘formality’ in speech and ‘informality’ in body posture • Organization of the interaction: e.g. ‘adjacency pairs’ are not linguistic units but interactional units

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