“Multimodality is a theory which looks at the many different modes that people use to communicate with each other and to express themselves.”——Kress.G. Introduction Following the podcast : Multimodality, knowledge to go! Laila, Leah, Nina , and I recorded, I want to elaborate on one of our key topics, history of Multimodality. If you are …
Multimodality, Knowledge to go: The History of Multimodality
‘Multimodality’ is a term that is now widely used in the academic world，which was first coined in the mid-1990s. It is used, for instance, by Charles Goodwin, in a seminal article that he submitted to the Journal of Pragmatics in 1998 (Goodwin, 2000)Since then, a myriad of conferences, monographs, edited volumes and other academic discussion …
