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Anthony Baldry, University of Pavia and Paul J. Thibault, University of Venice Ca' Foscari
400 Pages on multimodality and multimediality in the distance learning age!
Anthony Baldry, University of Pavia, and Paul Thibault, University of Venice, have worked together within the Pavia section of the CITATAL project to develop analyses of film media based on linguistic and semiotic theory. Film studies have not always responded to this type of analysis but the multimodal approach, with its capacity to capture even the most apparently insignificant of details, seems to stand up well. The files are arranged in chronological order of development recording the progress we have made, which includes the development of an entirely new discipline: multimodal corpus linguistics. Our efforts have been presented in many countries: Australia, Italy, Finland, Great Britain and have thus benefited from our interactions with other scholars. Our thanks go to Michele Beltrami, Alessandro Caglio and Marco Piastra for permission to include technical reports on the software tools for multimodality and multimediality that they have developed and similarly to Maria Pavesi, Chris Taylor and Mersini Karagvrekis who advised us constantly and helped us present our materials on a number of occasions. Our research is presented in the form of a series of Adobe Acrobat *.pdf files. Just click on the visual logo of each file.
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The multimodal syllabus. Brief description: This file analyses the notion of multimodal syllabus on a comparative and historical basis, suggesting the validity of multimodal grammar for non-specialist students of English. The presentation is divided into two parts: A) The scientific page; B) The scientific documentary. The first compares texts from the 19th and 20th centuries (e.g. texts from Darwin and Marx). The second compares film texts from the first and second half of the 20th century. 38 pages. Download .pdf file (zippato) |
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Multimodal analysis and transcription of dynamic texts. Brief description: This file analyses two adverts. Using a combined metafunctional and phasal analysis, the first analysis shows how American and British cultural values come to be contrasted in an advert for the Chrysler Neon car. Similarly, the second provides a systematic description of the co-deployment of semiotic resources in an Australian bank advert. Both analyses function as an experiment in multimodal transcription. 47 pages. Download .pdf file (zippato) |
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3. The Liverpool Lecture on Patient Consent Workshop on multimodality and multimediality. ISFC 26 Singapore 26.7.1999 (91 pages) |
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4. Towards the multimodal syllabus. Workshop on: Play, School and Work: Explorations in the Social Implications of Multimodal Corpus Linguistics, ISFC 27 Melbourne, July 2000 This presentation records the development towards a multimodal syllabus based on the concept of multimodal corpus linguistics. It is divided into 4 parts each of which attempts to provide an answer to the question displayed on the cover page. 80 pages. Download presentazione PowerPoint (zippato) |
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Hypertext-based analyses of oral discourse: RWFS and Multimodal
Laboratory. Workshop on multimodality and multimediality in the
distance learning age. This
presentation is divided into three parts. After a brief discussion
about the nature of dynamic hypertext, the analysis first describes
a simulation of oral discourse in terms of discourse and text theory
and then moves on to the authentic oral discourse of young children
playing an adventure game. 66 pages. |
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The Unflyable Plane. A multimodal presentation of a disaster documentary.
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The Honda ad: a multimodal analysis and transcription of a dynamic
text. International Congress on Multimodality and Meaning Making:
Dynamic Genres, Hypertext, Corpora and Authentic Data in the distance
learning age. University of Pavia, 1.12.2000 |
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2000 Università degli Studi di Padova-Dipartimento di Lingue e
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