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NEW: The
videos of the Symposium are now online (click on the name to watch the video): KEYNOTE
SPEECHES: CAREY JEWITT: “Different approaches
to multimodality” PAPERS: - Session: Dynamic images Ilaria Moschini: “Music & Series: The verbalizing role of soundtracks in
contemporary TV series” - Session: Web Elisabetta Adami: “Video-interaction on YouTube: Contemporary changes in semiosis and
communication” - Session: Face-to-face interaction Anthony Baldry &
Paul Thibault: “Multimodal
turn-taking” Martin Solly: “‘Giving the graduates an
earful’: Identity and interaction in commencement speeches” Francesca Coccetta: “Bringing a multimodal perspective to the
investigation of spoken corpora” - Session: Specific discourses Sandra
Campagna & Cecilia Boggio:
“Multimodality in Economic discourse” POSTER PRESENTATIONS: Ilaria Fornasini: “Illuminated
multimodality: Communicative dynamics in later medieval manuscripts” Rosalba Rizzo: “Multimodal
and intercultural analysis of today’s online newspapers” Maria Grazia Sindoni: “Mode
switching: How oral and written modes alternate in videochats” Symposium announcement Social Semiotics (Hodge and Kress, 1988) has been refining its
analytic tools for more than a decade, starting from Visual Grammar (Kress and
van Leeuwen, 1996, 2006) and founding Multimodal Discourse Analysis (Kress
and van Leeuwen, 2001). Since then, also in Italian academic contexts,
several researchers have been working alongside this agenda and have produced
a number of valuable studies, in some cases developing original frameworks
(cf. for example Baldry and Thibault, 2006). Social semiotics and multimodal analysis refer explicitly to
Hallidayan linguistics, by transforming its tools and interpretative
framework so as to give account of all semiotic modes and practices. In the
Italian context, researchers on multimodality generally work within the area
of Linguistic Studies and, specifically, of Studies on English Language and
Linguistics. Yet not only are linguistic categories and tools hardly suitable
for the analysis of multimodal texts; even more, a multimodal approach to
texts confers new perspectives to the interpretation of language and
communication. Stemming from these considerations, the Symposium on ‘Multimodal Approaches to Communication’
(Verona, 27 May 2009) aims at
gathering Italian researchers in the field to discuss their works with
reference to how multimodal analysis sheds new light onto linguistic studies
and studies on communication. The Programme
will host contributions dealing with a wide range of topics. The Symposium presents itself as an opportunity for opening a
discussion onto new possibilities and directions for interpreting human
communication. Keynote
speakers: -
Gunther Kress (Centre for Multimodal Research, Institute of Education, University of
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Carey Jewitt (Centre for Multimodal Research, Scientific
committee: Elisabetta Adami ( Roberta
Facchinetti (University of Verona) Cesare Gagliardi
(University of Verona) Gunther Kress (Centre for
Multimodal Research, Carey Jewitt (Centre for Multimodal Research, The |
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