3Where is multimodality? Communicative situations and their media
Orientation
The main purpose of this chapter is to provide definitions of several key terms necessary for pursuing multimodal research. The definitions can be considered complementary to definitions that may exist in other disciplines, formulated here with the express goal of supporting multimodal research. Taken together, they offer a solid foundation for considering all and any kinds of multimodality-in-use. We begin with a multimodally-appropriate construction of the notion of ‘communication’, and then move on to define the ‘media’ of multimodal communication with respect to this. These definitions have to be flexible enough to cover new media as they evolve and to provide ...
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