This accessible textbook brings the multiple modes together into an integrated theory of multimodality. Step-by-step, beginning with theory then exploring modes and how to work with them, before concluding with how to apply this in an investigation, each stage of working with multimodality is covered.
Working with Multimodality will help students and scholars to:
• Think about specific modes and how they function
• Consider the implications for multimodal meaning-making
• Become familiar with conventions and folk knowledge about given modes
• Apply this same knowledge to their own production of media texts in classrooms
Assuming no prior knowledge about multimodality and its properties, Working with Multimodality is designed to appeal to advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students interested in how learning and innovation is different in a digital and media age and is an essential textbook for courses in literacy, new media and multimodality within applied linguistics , education and communication studies.