Multimodality, besides entailing at least two modes of expression, also engages at least two
modes of interpretation. For instance, when language and gesture coincide, the body of the …

Multimodality is a concept introduced and developed in the last two decades to account for
the different resources used in communication to express meaning. The term is used both to …

While it is crystal clear that communication can draw on many semiotic resources, research
in the humanities has hitherto strongly focused on its verbal manifestations.“Multimodality” …

Multimodal analysis refers to the process of interpreting and making sense of qualitative
data in projects that mix verbal and nonverbal forms of information. It is a broad area of …

The term “multimodality” incorporates visible gestures as part of language, a goal first put
forward by Adam Kendon, and this idea revolutionized the scope of linguistic inquiry. But …

Multimodality is used to refer to a theory, a perspective, a methodological application or a
field of enquiry. It attends to the full repertoire of resources that people use to communicate …

Abstract Language is intrinsically multimodal. Speakers use gestures, prosody, gaze, and
facial expressions as cues that complement and expand the meaning expressed in their …

The mainstream view of linguistic form, characteristic of modern linguistics, can be
formulated as follows: language consists of hierarchically organized segmental units, such …

This chapter discusses multimodal approaches to the study of linguistics, and of
representation and communication more generally. It draws attention to the range of different …

What do we study when we study language? Our theories of language, and particularly our
theories of the cognitive and neural underpinnings of language, have developed primarily …