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Talk by Rob Waller - abstract / bio below Rob Waller’s career has included professional practice as an information designer and academic roles at the Open University and the University of Reading, where he was Professor of Information Design. This talk addresses the interface between those two worlds. At Reading, he worked with Martin Thomas and Judy Delin...
Speakers: Dr Jack Wilson (University of Salford) and Janet Watson (University of Leeds) Abstract: The structure of co-speech gesture closely correlates with the syntactic organisation of a co-articulated spoken language. Studies have shown that the realisation of semantic features in speech is temporally aligned with gesture (Kita and Özyürek, 2003). For example, languages (e.g., see...
You’re invited to the following 2 research talks in multimodality, held on Tuesday 27th March, at 12pm and at 1pm, in Baines Wing SR G.40: 12-1pm: Hanem El-Farahaty “A Multimodal Analysis of Political Satire: Webcomics and GIFs in Post-Arab Spring Egypt” 1pm-2pm: Sara Magro Ramos Pinto “Multimodal Film, Monomodal subtitling: how lost do viewers get in-between? Discussion of the principles and structure...
Open to PhD and Postdoc researchers ELAN is software for annotating video and audio resources. It allows for complex, and unlimited, annotations of different modalities and is particularly useful for annotating data with multiple participants. In this workshop you will learn how annotations can be time-aligned with the data or with other annotations, allowing for...
Hanem El-Farahaty - CTS and AIMES The Egyptian Revolution in 2011 and the protests known as ‘the Arab Spring’ resulted in an increase in the number of cartoonists and amateurs who use specialist software to digitally mix modes for novel sign-making (Lankshear and Knobel, 2008; Gursimesk, 2016). These people draw creative forms of satire including...
Haynes Collins, School of Languages, Cultures and Societies, University of Leeds The environment of a publicly-accessible swimming pool has rich potential for exploring the fluidity of space and how cultural practices coalesce around the performance of swimming. This study highlights the underlying disorder within one pool (‘The Edge’) at the University of Leeds and identifies...
This is one of a series of talks under the Multimodality Satellite Speakers: Alessio Mattana (University of Leeds) and Giacomo Savani (University of Leicester) Abstract: Contemporary critical studies on the culture of the long eighteenth century have tended, across different disciplines, to overlook the function and impact of images for the readers of the age....
This talk is part of the series of events under the Language at Leeds Multimodality satellite https://www.latl.leeds.ac.uk/research-satellites/multimodality/ Speaker Sandra Petroni University of Rome "Tor Vergata" Digital textuality involves a wide range of text types today. Most of them are “remediated” discursive practices (Bolter 2001, Bolter and Grusin 1999), e.g. digital news reports, articles, interviews, video-conferences,...
The Multimodality Satellite of Language@Leeds will be hosting this research talk by Massimiliano Demata Università di Bari According to a multimodal view of meaning, language is no longer considered central in the communication of meaning in the written form. Rather, multimodality involves the simultaneous use of different semiotic systems, such as language, layout, images, etc.,...
The Multimodality Satellite of Language@Leeds will be hosting this research talk by Maria Grazia Sindoni, University of Messina The analysis of spontaneous interaction is a research priority within social and linguistic sciences (cf. Bezemer and Jewitt 2010: 181), such as conversation analysis (Sacks, Schegloff, and Jefferson 1974; Sacks 1992), interactional sociology (Goffman 1981), interactional sociolinguistics...