Multimodality in Writing - The state of the art in theory, methodology and pedagogy
Multimodality in Writing - The state of the art in theory, methodology and pedagogy
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写作中的多模态——理论、方法论和教学法的最新进展
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10.1163/9789004297197_004
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2015
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Adami E
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Adami E
What is there in a text that has us say, at a first glance,‘this is kitsch’or ‘this is radical chic’or ‘this is childish’? What do these labels reveal about the text? Even more, what do they reveal about us, when we use labels of this kind to define the style and aesthetics of a text? The present chapter tries to answer these questions, by sketching a social semiotic framework for the multimodal analysis of aesthetics in digital texts. It has been designed for the analysis of the aesthetics in blogs, but it has the potential to be applied to all kinds of webpages. As a relatively ‘old’type of webtext, the blog format has been the subject of considerable academic investigation; yet most empirical studies have often focused on solely analysing the texts’ written and, at times, visual content. Quantitative approaches (eg De Zúñiga, Puig-I-Abril, & Rojas, 2009; Herring et al., 2005; Kelly, 2010; Reese, Rutigliano, Hyun, & Jeong, 2007) provide a description of blogs in terms of numbers and frequency of posting, comments, internal/external links. More qualitative studies (eg Huffaker & Calvert, 2005; Kenix, 2009; Kerbel & Bloom, 2005; Siles, 2012) use content