1st Edition

Multimodal Analysis in Academic Settings From Research to Teaching

274 Pages 39 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

262 Pages 39 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

262 Pages 39 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This volume presents innovative research on the multimodal dimension of discourse specific to academic settings, with a particular focus on the interaction between the verbal and non-verbal in constructing meaning. Contributions by experienced and emerging researchers provide in-depth analyses in both research and teaching contexts, and consider the ways in which multimodal strategies can be... Read more

Introduction  Inmaculada Fortanet-Gómez and Belinda Crawford Camiciottoli  Part I: Research Communications  1. Disagreements in Plenary Addresses as Multimodal Action  Zuocheng Zhang  2. Contrastive Multimodal Analysis: Conference Plenary Lectures in English and in Spanish  Noelia Ruiz-Madrid and Inmaculada Fortanet-Gómez  3. Intensifying Adverbs in Academic Spoken Discourse: A Contrastive Study between English and Spanish  Miguel Ruiz Garrido  4. Visual Communication in Applied Linguistics Conference Presentations  Giuliana Diani  5. A Multimodal Approach to Persuasion in Conference Presentations  Julia Valeiras Jurado  Part II: Classroom Applications  6. There is More to Multimodality than Discourse Features and Nonverbal Behaviors!  Christine Räisänen  7. Elaborating Explanations during OpenCourseWare Humanities Lectures: The Interplay of Verbal and Nonverbal Strategies  Belinda Crawford Camiciottoli  8. Multimodality in Business Communication: Body Language as a Visual Aid in Student Presentations  Juan Carlos Palmer-Silveira  9. Assessing Multimodal Listening  Mari Carmen Campoy-Cubillo and Mercedes Querol-Julián  10. Teaching Learners How to Use Pragmatic Routines through Audiovisual Material  Silvia Bruti

Biography

Belinda Crawford Camiciottoli is Associate Professor in the Department of Philology, Literature and Linguistics at the University of Pisa, Italy.

Inmaculada Fortanet-Gómez is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English Language at Universitat Jaume I, Spain.

"Multimodal Analysis in Academic Settings provides another angle on multimodality studies, and brings a little spice into the hitherto rather dry areas of conference presentation and teaching technique." —Christopher Taylor, University of Trieste, Italy