Keywords

Learning outcomes

The module gives students focused insights into theoretical and methodological approaches concerning the research of multimodal action and performances. It provides insights to understand performativity as active producing of socio-cultural realities and how performances as well as performatives, resist, embrace, and define historical and contemporary politics.
Another focus of the module concerns multimodal nature of performances. During the course students learn specific ways to analyse multimodal materials and examine the use of multimodal resources such as speech, tone, gaze, body attitude or movement as a part of cultural action. The purpose is to study how multimodal performativity co-dependently affects the nature of the content and what is the overall significance of multimodality in human action.

Contents

Lectures and literature, case studies of live and virtual performances and other expressive events.

Teaching language

Evaluation

Study materials

• Kress, G. (2009) Multimodality: a Social Semiotic Approach to Contemporary Communication, London: Routledge.

• Ventola, E., Charles, C. and Kaltenbacher, M. (2004) Perspectives on Multimodality. Amsterdam & Philadelphia, PA: John Benjamin’s Publishing Company.

• In addition one of books below:

 - Cope, B. and M. Kalantzis (eds.) (2000) Multiliteracies : Literacy Learning and the Design of Social Futures. London: Routledge.

- Fischer-Lichte, Erika (2008) The Transformative Power of Performance. A New Aesthetics. Routledge: New York.

- McNeill D. (1992) Hand and Mind: What Gestures Reveal about Thought. University Of Chicago Press.

- Zhao, S& Emilia D (2014). Critical Multimodal Studies of Popular Discourse. New York: Routledge.

Belongs to following study modules

2018–2019

Teaching

Archived Teaching Schedule. Please refer to current Teaching Shedule.

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