Mapping Multimodal Performance Studies

Mapping Multimodal Performance Studies
Author: Maria Grazia Sindoni,Janina Wildfeuer,Kay O'Halloran
Publsiher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2016-12-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9781317219194

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This book is a first attempt to map the broad context of performance studies from a multimodal perspective. It collects original research on traditional performing arts (theatre, dance, opera), live (durational performance) and mediated/recorded performances (films, television shows), as well as performative discursive practices on social media by adopting several theories and methodologies all dealing with the notion of multimodality. As a mostly dynamic and also interactive environment for various text types and genres, the context of performance studies provides many opportunities to produce meaning verbally and non-verbally. All chapters in this book develop frameworks for the analysis of performance-related events and activities and explore empirical case studies in a range of different ages and cultures. A further focus lies on the communicative strategies deployed by different communities of practice, taking into account processes of production, distribution, and consumption of such texts in diverse spatial and temporal contexts.

Intermedial Theatre

Intermedial Theatre
Author: Mark Crossley
Publsiher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 367
Release: 2019-05-01
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9781350316201

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This rigorous yet accessible collection demystifies the principles of intermediality whilst examining its place in 21st century theatrical practice. Bringing together chapters and case studies from top thinkers in the field, this book clarifies the key theoretical ideas and practical impacts of intermediality while encouraging students to experiment with it in their own practical work. Offering an engaging insight into one of the most dominant trends in contemporary theatre, this is essential reading for students of theatre, performance and media studies.

A Multimodal Perspective on Applied Storytelling Performances

A Multimodal Perspective on Applied Storytelling Performances
Author: Soe Marlar Lwin
Publsiher: Routledge
Total Pages: 186
Release: 2019-09-18
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9781351059978

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In this volume, Soe Marlar Lwin proposes a contextualized multimodal framework that brings together storytelling practitioners’ and academic researchers’ conceptions of storytelling. It aims to highlight the ways in which various institutions in contemporary society have been using live storytelling performances as an effective communicative, educative and meaning-making tool. Drawing on theories of narrative from narratology as well as from related fields such as discourse analysis, multimodal analysis, communication and performance studies, the author proposes a contextualized multimodal framework to (a) uncover the potential narrativity of a live storytelling performance through an analysis of narrative elements constituting the story, (b) capture the process of developing actual narrativity through a multimodal analysis of performance features in the storytelling discourse, and (c) highlight the importance of context and dynamics between the storyteller and audience for an achievement of optimal narrativity in a particular storytelling event. The sample analysis shows how the framework not only describes the system governing institutionalized storytelling performances in general but also serves as a useful model to examine individual performance as a unique realization of the general system. The book also offers implications for possible applications of such contextualized multimodal frameworks more broadly across the disciplines.

Empirical Multimodality Research

Empirical Multimodality Research
Author: Jana Pflaeging,Janina Wildfeuer,John A. Bateman
Publsiher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 295
Release: 2021-11-08
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9783110725001

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This volume advances the data-based study of multimodal artefacts and performances by showcasing methods and results from the latest endeavors in empirical multimodal research, representing a vibrant international and interdisciplinary research community. The collated chapters identify and seek to inspire novel, mixed-method approaches to investigate meaning-making mechanisms in current communicative artifacts, designs, and contexts; while attending to their immersive, aesthetic, and ideological dimensions. Each contribution details innovative aspects of empirical multimodality research, offering insights into challenges evolving from quantitative approaches, particular corpus work, results from eye-tracking and psychological experiments, and analyses of dynamic interactive experiences. The approaches and results presented foreground the inherent multidisciplinary nature and implications of multimodality, renegotiating concepts across linguistics, media studies, (social) semiotics, game studies, and design. With this, the volume will inform both current and future developments in theory, methods, and transdisciplinary contexts and become a landmark reference for anyone interested in the empirical study of multimodality.

New Studies in Multimodality

New Studies in Multimodality
Author: Ognyan Seizov,Janina Wildfeuer
Publsiher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2017-07-27
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9781350026520

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Multimodality is one of the most popular and influential semiotic theories for analysing media. However, the application and conceptual anchoring of multimodality often remains geographically and disciplinarily grounded within local systems of thought. New Studies in Multimodality combines the expertise of multimodalists from around the globe, offering novel readings and applications of central concepts in multimodality and inviting innovative synergies between previously disparate schools. Combining perspectives from the most actively developing traditions of theory and research, this book progresses from classic concepts to more empirically and practice-motivated contributions. Contributors engage in mutual dialogue to present new theoretical perspectives and compelling applications to a variety of old and new media. Expanding the basis and scope of multimodality, this volume shows awareness and experience of this field in many disciplines and illustrates how versatile, pervasive and relevant it is for studying today's communication phenomena.

Multimodality

Multimodality
Author: John Bateman,Janina Wildfeuer,Tuomo Hiippala
Publsiher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 424
Release: 2017-04-10
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9783110479898

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This textbook provides the first foundational introduction to the practice of analysing multimodality, covering the full breadth of media and situations in which multimodality needs to be a concern. Readers learn via use cases how to approach any multimodal situation and to derive their own specifically tailored sets of methods for conducting and evaluating analyses. Extensive references and critical discussion of existing approaches from many disciplines and in each of the multimodal domains addressed are provided. The authors adopt a problem-oriented perspective throughout, showing how an appropriate foundation for understanding multimodality as a phenomenon can be used to derive strong methodological guidance for analysis as well as supporting the adoption and combination of appropriate theoretical tools. Theoretical positions found in the literature are consequently always related back to the purposes of analysis rather than being promoted as valuable in their own right. By these means the book establishes the necessary theoretical foundations to engage productively with today’s increasingly complex combinations of multimodal artefacts and performances of all kinds.

Current Trends in EMI and Multimodality in Higher Education

Current Trends in EMI and Multimodality in Higher Education
Author: Vicent Beltrán-Palanques,Edgar Bernad-Mechó
Publsiher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 275
Release: 2024-07-08
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781003834335

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Looking at both English Medium Instruction (EMI) and multimodality in higher education, this edited volume bridges the gap between the two contexts by offering various new insights into fundamentals in multilingual education, EMI discourse and current teaching practices in internationalised contexts. Current demands in communication, especially in higher-education contexts, require examining EMI from a multimodal perspective with the aim of giving explicit attention to modern discourse practices. The contributors reflect on the principles guiding EMI and multimodality and their application in higher education using both practical examples and data-driven evidences. They discuss EMI multimodal discourse from an empirical perspective to unveil communicative practices in internationalised higher-education contexts; and exemplify classroom applications and ESP and EAP pedagogical practices that promote multimodal competence in higher education. The contributors provide solid theoretical foundations, key principles, research evidence and pedagogical implications that inform current methodologies and practices for EMI, ESP and EAP, as well as multimodality in higher education. This volume on EMI and multimodality in higher education will have broad appeal for researchers worldwide from various fields of expertise within education and applied linguistics.

Narrative Rewritings and Artistic Praxis in Derek Walcott s Works

Narrative Rewritings and Artistic Praxis in Derek Walcott s Works
Author: Mattia Mantellato
Publsiher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 383
Release: 2022-08-18
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9781527588073

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This book focuses on Derek Walcott’s literary and artistic wor(l)d. Western postcolonial critique has depicted the Nobel Prize laureate as one of the greatest poets of the 20th century world. This, however, devalues his fundamental contribution to the realm of Caribbean theatre and art. The text examines Walcott’s multimodal production, a combination of West Indian folkloric forms and Western-oriented structures and themes, by discussing three of his works—two plays, The Joker of Seville and Pantomime, and a long poem, Tiepolo’s Hound. These epitomise respectively a response to Spanish, English, and French cultural legacies in the New World as postcolonial re-writings of Don Juan, Robinson Crusoe, and Camille Pissarro’s stories. Following Quijano and Mignolo’s decolonial approaches and Riane Eisler’s partnership perspective, the book uncovers the strategies used by Walcott to respond to the colonial matrix of power.