{"id":419,"date":"2017-10-13T11:34:04","date_gmt":"2017-10-13T11:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/clcrseminars\/?page_id=419"},"modified":"2017-10-13T11:34:57","modified_gmt":"2017-10-13T11:34:57","slug":"22-november-2017","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/clcrseminars\/22-november-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"22 November 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

Speaker: Arianna Maiorani<\/strong> (Loughborough University)<\/p>\n

Title: Multimodality and Interdisciplinarity: t<\/b>heoretical issues and promising<\/b> results<\/b><\/p>\n

Venue and Time: room 3.58 (John Percival Building), 12.10<\/p>\n

Abstract:<\/p>\n

There is currently much debate on the nature of Multimodality as a discipline and\/or methodology and\/or social practice (e.g. Bateman\/Hippala\/Wildfeuer 2017, O\u2019Halloran 2015, Machin and Mayr 2012, Kress 2010).<\/p>\n

As a Linguist who is interested in Discourse Analysis informed by Systemic Functional Linguistics I found in Multimodality an epistemological orientation that provided me with the right environment to develop and implement analytical tools to address current and ever evolving forms of communication (Maiorani 2017, 2015 2014, 2011, 2009). More recently, my work in Multimodality allowed me to combine my expertise as Linguist and Discourse Analyst with my expertise as former professional ballet dancer, teacher and choreographer when I created the Functional Grammar of Dance for manual analysis of dance discourse.<\/p>\n

My work on Multimodality also facilitated my collaboration with colleagues from disciplines not traditionally associated with Discourse Analysis: healthcare Engineering and Computer Science. With colleagues at Loughborough University I led a pilot project called \u201cUnderstanding the meaning of Dance: the potential for Kinesemiotics\u201d that was funded by the Loughborough University CALIBRE programme and involved an important collaboration with the English National Ballet.<\/p>\n

My seminar will address two aspects of the research I have carried out so far in several domains of Multimodality: the inevitable challenges related to some problematic theoretical tenets that Multimodal Discourse Analysis seems to reveal and\/or highlight (particularly in relation to Systemic Functional Linguistic Theory) and the really intriguing research opportunities for interdisciplinary projects that defy the traditional and quite obsolete separations between disciplines and domains of knowledge. The second point will be supported by some very interesting videos based on movement data collection performed with artists from the English National Ballet.<\/p>\n

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REFERENCES<\/p>\n

Bateman, J.\/Hippala, T.\/ Wildfeuer, J. 2017. Multimodality.Foundations<\/i>, research and analysis.<\/i> Berlin-Boston: Mouton De Gruyter.<\/p>\n

Kress, G. 2010. Multimodality: a social semiotic approach to contemporary communication. <\/i>London-New York: Routledge.<\/p>\n

Machin, D. and A. Mayr. 2012. How <\/i>To<\/i> Do Critical Discourse Analysis: A Multimodal Introduction<\/i>. London: Sage.<\/p>\n

Maiorani, A. 2009. \u201cDeveloping the metafunctional framework to analyse the multimodal hypertextual identity construction: The Lord of the Rings from page to MMORPG\u201d, in E.Ventola and A.J- Moya Guijarro (eds) The World Told and the World Shown<\/i>, London: Palgrave, 220-241.<\/p>\n

Maiorani, A. 2011. \u201cReading movies as interactive messages: A proposal for a new method of analysis\u201d, in Semiotica<\/em>, 187 \u2013 1\/4,167-188.<\/p>\n

Maiorani, A. 2014. \u201cFilmic Narrative Sequences as Multimodal Environments: A New Perspective on the Effects of Dubbing\u201d, in A.Maiorani and C.Christie (eds) Multimodal Epistemologies: Towards An Integrated Framework<\/i>, London-New York, Routledge, 210-227.<\/p>\n

Maiorani, A. \u201cRevisiting Hitchcock: an alternative multimodal reading of interactive patterns in \u2018Psycho\u2019\u201d, in C.Jones, S. Starc and A.Maiorani (eds) Meaning making in Text: Multimodal and Multilingual Functional Perspectives<\/i>, London: Palgrave, 134-151.<\/p>\n

Maiorani, A. 2017. \u201cMaking Meaning Through Movement: A Functional Grammar of Dance\u201d. In M.G. Sindoni, J. Wildfeuer, and K.L. O’Halloran, (eds) Mapping Multimodal Performance Studies<\/i>. London-New York: Routledge, 39-60.<\/p>\n

O\u2019Halloran, K.L. 2015. \u201cMultimodal Digital Humanities\u201d. In P.P.Tifonas (ed.), International Handbook of Semiotics<\/i>, Dordrecht: Springer, 389-416.<\/p>\n

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Arianna Maiorani is Senior Lecturer in Linguistics at Loughborough University. Her research interests focus on Multimodal Discourse Analysis and Systemic Functional Linguistics. A former professional ballet dancer, she has recently published a Functional Grammar of Dance that informs her current interdisciplinary research project and a collaboration with the English National Ballet: \u201cMaking Meaning Through Movement: A Functional Grammar of Dance\u201d, in Mapping<\/i> Multimodal Performance Studies<\/i>, ed. by M.G.Sindoni, J.Wildfeuer and K.L.O\u2019Halloran,\u00a0 London\/New York: Routledge, 2017, pp. 39-60.<\/p>\n

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