Multimodality and Multilingualism: Towards an Integrative Approach

✍ Scribed by Steph Ainsworth (editor); Dominic Griffiths (editor); Gee Macrory (editor)

• Publisher: Multilingual Matters
• Year: 2023
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 262
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book explores the ways in which multimodality and multilingualism as areas of study intersect and provides empirical examples of how this looks in practice from a wide range of settings. It argues that the everyday practices of multilingual communities are multimodal in nature.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Figures and Tables
Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Origins, Scope and Rationale of the Book
Part 1: Multilingual Approaches
Introduction to Part 1: Appraising the ‘Multilingual Turn’ in Applied Linguistics and Sociolinguistics
1. Heritage Language Speakers’ Responses to Plurilingual Pedagogies in a Secondary School Context
2. The Development of the Linguistic Repertoire of Primary School Learners within the Mauritian Multilingual Educational System
3. ‘What’s in a Name?’ An Exploratory Study on International Students’ Names within International University Theatre Society Contexts
4. ‘So You Need to Be Able to Tell It Well’: On Footing and Genre in Lawyer– Client Consultations in the Field of Asylum Law
Part 2: Multimodal Approaches
Introduction to Part 2: Situating Multimodality in the Landscape of Language Research
5. Applying Linguistics to the Theatre Production Process
6. ‘A Special Closeness’, ‘des moments de tendresse indescriptibles’: A Multimodal Critique of Infant Feeding Health Promotional Discourse in Ireland and France
7. Expressing Reading Engagement within Drama-Based Literary Work: Perspectives from Three Students in a Linguistically Diverse Classroom in Sweden
8. Conversation through Art
Part 3: Integrating Multimodal and Multilingual Approaches
Introduction to Part 3: Multilingualism and Multimodality: A Comment
9. Meaning Matters: Multimodality, (New) Materialism and Co-production with Young People in Applied Linguistics
10. Peer to Peer Multiliteracies: A New Concept of Accessibility
Concluding Thoughts: Labouring Together towards Generous Cuts in Language and Literacy Education
Index