This dissertation contributes to the fields of applied linguistics and literacy studies by considering the complex meaning-making processes of adults from refugee backgrounds as they navigate new textual, linguistic, and educational landscapes. Meaning-making as it is understood…
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This project focuses on the development and empirical study of design pedagogy for teaching and learning communication work in professional and technical communication (PTC) courses. It provides communication design history, theoretical and practical frameworks, and results of a…
While the literacy narrative genre has been studied in first-year composition and methods of teaching courses, investigations of the literacy narrative as a multimodal project for pre-service teachers (PSTs) of English Language Arts remain scarce. This research shares a qualitat…
This book provides a comprehensive introduction to Conversational AI. While the idea of interacting with a computer using voice or text goes back a long way, it is only in recent years that this idea has become a reality with the emergence of digital personal assistants, smart s…
This book provides a comprehensive introduction to Conversational AI. While the idea of interacting with a computer using voice or text goes back a long way, it is only in recent years that this idea has become a reality with the emergence of digital personal assistants, smart s…
This thesis explores the use of multimodality to communicate retrieved results of Internet search engines. The investigation aimed to investigate suitable multimodal metaphors which would increase the level of usability of Internet search engine interfaces and enhance users` exp…
This book offers in-depth qualitative case studies of 70 acts of quoting verbatim performed by 16 US speakers across a range of public settings. While their written versions unequivocally index the other voice via quotation marks, the video data drawn from the internet largely l…
When teaching Jewish texts depicting genders as unequal, educators have expressed the concern that students may question Jewish ethics if texts are not seen as representing more positive values and gender roles. This speaks to the often-stated goal for Jewish education to give s…
This dissertation analyzes works by two African Italian women writers of Somali descent, Ubax Cristina Ali Farah and Igiaba Scego, with a particular focus on representations of the voice and the body. Ali Farah and Scego, two of the most prominent authors of Italian postcolonial…
In this study, I investigate the ways in which Facebook users, through public comments they post on an LGBTQ+ organization’s page, multimodally construct diverse interpretations and meanings of an event. Bringing together Bateson’s (1972) and Goffman’s (1974) interactional under…
Multimodality: towards a new discipline
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