We are a group of researchers interested in and working on Multimodality at the University of Leeds
MULTIMODALITY TALKS Series is a joint initiative for researchers across the world who are interested in multimodality. It aims to provide a platform for dialogue for advancing multimodal research across disciplines. Multimodality draws attention to how meaning is made through the combined use of semiotic resources such as gesture, speech, face expression, body movement and … Continue reading MULTIMODALITY TALKS Series 2022-2023
Day: Fri, March 31, 2023 Time: 12:00 – 13:30 GMT Place: online Speaker: Sara Van Meerbergen, Stockholm University, Department of Slavic and Baltic Studies, Finnish, Dutch and German, Stockholm, Sweden To attend the talk, please register here Abstract: In this talk I will explore how theoretical and methodological insights from Descriptive Translation Studies (DTS) and Social Semiotics can … Continue reading Multimodality Talks Series: Translation Studies meets Social Semiotics. Recontextualization of images and changing multimodal depictions of agency, gender and diversity
Day: Fri, March 17, 2023 Time: 12:00 – 13:30 GMT Place: online Speaker: Dr Fariha Hayat, Iqra University, Pakistan To watch the recorded talk, please see here Abstract: Intersemiosis between language and images has been widely studied (e.g. Bateman, 2014; Daly and Unsworth, 2011; Lim and O’Halloran, 2012; Painter et al., 2011; Royce, 2006) to theorise the dynamic … Continue reading Multimodality Talks Series: Examining the Intersemiosis of Space, Language and Embodied Interaction for Studying the Design of Sustainable Built Environments
Day: Fri, March 3, 2023 Time: 12:00 – 13:30 GMT Place: online Speaker: Adam Jaworski, University of Hong Kong To attend the talk, please register here Abstract Sculptural place names are large, typically human size, free standing, three-dimensional letter forms designating buildings, institutions, cities, countries, and other locations. They are commonly found in high value, gentrifying urban areas … Continue reading Multimodality Talks Series: Sculptural Place Names: Between Elitism and Egalitarianism in Gentrified Urban Spaces
Day: Fri, February 17, 2023 Time: 12:00 – 13:30 GMT Place: online Speaker: Pei Soo Ang, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur. To attend the talk, please register here Abstract Vulnerable population groups such as people with disabilities are far more susceptible to sensationalist media reporting. People with disabilities are marked by a sign system which indicates the body as different … Continue reading Multimodality Talks Series: Advocating for inclusivity of people with disabilities through visual communication
Day: Fri, February 3, 2023 Time: 12:00 – 13:30 GMT Place: online Speaker: Michele Zappavigna, University of New South Wales To watch the recorded talk, please see here Abstract This presentation introduces a social semiotic framework for exploring the intermodal functions of emoji in digital discourse. The framework models emoji as a form of paralanguage, and as such, … Continue reading Multimodality Talks Series: Multimodal communication in emergent multilingual contexts: analyzing tutor-students’ interactions
Day: Fri, 20 January 2023 Time: 12:00 – 13:30 GMT Place: online Speaker: Dr Maria Papadopoulou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki To watch the recorded talk, please see here Abstract: Over the last years Europe has experienced the greater mass movement since the Second World War. Nearly one third of the population that found refuge in Europe were children. … Continue reading Multimodality Talks Series: Multimodal communication in emergent multilingual contexts: analyzing tutor-students’ interactions
Day: Fri, December 9, 2022 Time: 12:30– 14:30 GMT Place: online Speaker: Sumin Zhao & Chris Cummins, University of Edinburgh To watch the recorded talk, please see here Abstract Statistical data—death tolls, hospitalisation rates, vaccination rates, R-numbers—have played a prominent role in Covid-19 discourses. Numbers are foregrounded in government briefings and news reporting, shaping public debates on pandemic … Continue reading Multimodality Talks Series: Arguing with numbers in digital multimodal dialogue
Day: Fri, November 25, 2022 Time: 12:00 – 13:30 GMT Place: online Speaker: Professor Lisa Björklund Boistrup, Malmö University To watch the recorded talk, please see here Abstract: In this talk I will elaborate on mathematisation and roles of different communicational resources, mainly drawing on a multimodal social semiotic perspective. On one hand, the notion that mathematics may … Continue reading Multimodality Talks Series: Multimodality and mathematisation: Different communicational resources in relation to mathematisations within and outside the math classroom
Day: Fri, 11 November 2022 Time: 12:00 – 13:30 GMT Place: online Speaker: Bessie Mitsikopoulou, Professor at the Department of English Language and Literature, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece To watch the recorded talk, please see here Abstract Drawing on research presented in my recent book Digital Media in Foreign Language Education (Pedio Publishers, 2022), in this … Continue reading Multimodality Talks Series: Integrating multimodal and digital literacies in language education
Day: Fri, October 28, 2022 Time: 12:00– 14:00 BST Place: online Speaker: Martin Engebretsen, University of Agder To watch the recorded talk, please see here Abstract: Data visualizations represent a composite mode with increasing impact in society. We find colorful, often animated and interactive, visual representations of (often big) numerical data in journalism and PR, in governmental campaigns and … Continue reading Multimodality Talks Series: Studying data visualization as a social and semiotic practice
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