The Spoken Language in a Multimodal Context (PDF)

Recently, research in the Humanities is showing an increasing interest in exactly how language and other semiotic resources support each other. The eighteen articles of this book focus on the interplay between spoken language and other modalities and address a spectrum of cross-modal resources and their functions. They also discuss how multimodal resources are exploited to increase communicative effectiveness and broaden accessibility to knowledge. This is illustrated with examples from discourse types including dramatic, literary and audiovisual texts, Facebook communication and chats, comics and audio-guides. The volume will be of interest to scholars of linguistics, translation studies, museology and education, and for readers interested in the wide array of possibilities that multimodal texts open up for meaning-making.

Jenny Brumme is a professor of translation and applied linguistics at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain. She leads a research project on the translation of fictional dialogue in literary and multimodal texts. Sandra Falbe is currently writing her PhD thesis on the role of evaluative language for the creation of fictional orality in audiovisual translation. She teaches linguistics for translators and German language at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona.