18Final words: ready, steady, analyse!
In this final chapter, we will bring the discussion to a (temporary!) close and provide some pointers for taking multimodality research and practice further. We saw in our opening chapters how multimodality is an issue that is forcing itself on a broad range of disciplines concerned with communication. We also saw there, however, that the diversity of approaches had so far not coalesced into a broader working practice with established methods and paradigms. The central chapters of our book were then intended to provide a more robust basis for taking multimodal research further—with the slightly longer term goal then to help a genuine ‘field’ of multimodality to emerge. The use case chapters of the last part ...
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