Multimodality

Join us for our next session in the Multimodality Talks Series: Speaker: Prof. Yiqiong ZHANG, Center for Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, PRC. Register for the event at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/yiqiong-zhang-the-same-pandemic-different-panmemic-multimodality-talk-tickets-132285474415 and you’ll be sent a link to attend the talk  Abstract In May 2020, semioticians across the world have joined together to launch...

Janina Wildfeuer, University of Groningen Abstract CPR, the Heimlich maneuver, or methods such as checking the pulse and securing the head and neck are important life-saving procedures that everyone should know when involved in emergency situations. How to follow the necessary steps and perform urgent measures is therefore communicated in first-aid instructions in the form...

Talk by Staffan Selander and Eva Insulander (Stockholm University, Sweden)  Online event. Registration required via the Eventbrite link below.  https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/multimodality-talks-knowledge-representations-and-re-designs-in-museums-tickets-136335016705 This talk explores knowledge representations and (re-)designs in museum contexts. It focuses on a few examples from ongoing and previous projects, where we have examined museum representations and designs in relation to the new role for...

Join us for the next online session of Multimodality Talks featuring Professor Øystein Gilje (UiO), Professor Henning Fjørtoft (NTNU), Post doc Eli Tronsmo (UiO), research fellow Åslaug Bjerke (UiO), associate professor Line Ingulfsen (USN) and associate professor Sigrid Ørevik (UiB) on ‘Assessment practices of multimodal compositions’ Registration: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/multimodality-talks-assessment-practices-of-multimodal-compositions-tickets-135923824819 In this seminar we present the project Multimodal...

The link to the session is available upon registration at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/multimodality-talks-dr-seray-ibrahim-tickets-131536189283 Interactions involving non speaking children with physical disabilities and their conversation partners offer a rich use case for illustrating key features of multimodal communication: exemplifying how agents work together to co-construct meaning, and that all parties draw on a range of material resources within...

We are pleased to invite you to our first meeting of the Multimodality Reading Group.    One of the five papers that we selected for this meeting presents Ledin and Machin's discussion on Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL)’s influence on multimodal research and the suitability of appropriating concepts and analytical models from SFL into multimodal analysis, specifically...

The UCL Visual and Multimodal Forum, the University of Leeds Multimodality@Leeds and the University of Stockholm are pleased to invite you to the first of a series of jointly organized talks on multimodality. The first talk will be given by Professor Rodney Jones (University of Reading, UK) on The invasion of the body snatchers: Synthetic embodiment and metalinguistic...

You’re all invited to our next Multimodality research talk by Dr Elizabeth Dobson (University of Huddersfield) To attend, please register here (attendees will be sent a link to join the meeting a few days before the talk Abstract: Music technology is a STEAM (STEM+Arts) subject, offering professional opportunities across a range of creative and technical careers (Sterne...

Speaker: Dr Ariel Chen, Örebro University, Sweden   Abstract The talk explores how protein snacks are marketed as healthy and how the myth of protein are reproduced through their packaging. Research shows that consumers believe high protein food has a positive impact on physical performance and body composition, although there is very little evidence supporting this...