Transmodality in/and Processes of Making: Changing Dispositions and Practice

Transmodality in/and Processes of Making: Changing Dispositions and Practice

This essay argues for approaches to composing that underscore the translingual and multimodal (or transmodal) character of texts and communicative practices. It maintains that learning about and working with different language varieties, cultural conventions, modes, and communicative technologies (d...

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Published in:College English Vol. 78; no. 3; pp. 250 - 257
Main Author: Shipka, Jody
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Urbana National Council of Teachers of English 01-01-2016
Subjects:
Academic Language
American English
College English
Communication
Communications technology
Elementary Education
Elementary Schools
Ideology
Information technology
Language
Language fluency
Language teaching methods
Language variation
Learning
Linguistics
Literacy
Monolingualism
Multilingualism
Statistical Data
Teaching Methods
Video Technology
Writers
Writing
Writing (Composition)
Writing instruction
Written communication
Written composition
Written Language
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Summary:This essay argues for approaches to composing that underscore the translingual and multimodal (or transmodal) character of texts and communicative practices. It maintains that learning about and working with different language varieties, cultural conventions, modes, and communicative technologies (digital as well as analog) helps to highlight processes of making, engaging, remixing, and transforming which, in turn, provide markedly different, and greatly enriched, points of entry for experiencing and appreciating the dynamic, highly distributed, translingual, multimodal, and embodied aspects of all communicative practice.
ISSN:0010-0994
2161-8178
DOI:10.58680/ce201627656