Multiliteracies and Metalanguage: Describing Image/Text Relations as a Resource for Negotiating Multimodal Texts

Title
Multiliteracies and Metalanguage: Describing Image/Text Relations as a Resource for Negotiating Multimodal Texts
Publication Date
2008
Author(s)
Unsworth, Len
Editor
Editor(s): Julie Coiro, Michele Knobel, Colin Lankshear and Donald J Leu
Type of document
Book Chapter
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Group, LLC
Place of publication
New York, United States of America
Edition
1
UNE publication id
une:3469
Abstract
New Literacies are diverse, dynamic, immediate, interactive, multimodal, rapidly evolving, and requisite for living and learning in the age of information and communication technologies (ICTs). This chapter explores a central principle of new literacies: that they are multiple in nature (New London Group, 2000). It focuses on the nature and role of a metalanguage that encompasses an integrated description of the combined meaning-making resources of language and images in multimodal texts. Image/text relations contribute to new literacies' typical representation of meaning in multiple modalities, which also include music, sound effects, and digital affordances such as windows and hyperlinks. This multimodal communication of meaning is one key dimension of the ongoing reconceptualization of literacy that has led to the construct of multiliteracies (New London Group, 2000; Unsworth, 2001).
Link
Citation
Handbook of Research on New Literacies, p. 377-405
ISBN
9780805856514
9780805856521
Start page
377
End page
405

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