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Centering Children's Voices and Purposes in Multimodality Research
- Source :
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Journal of Literacy Research . Sep 2022 54(3):322-345. - Publication Year :
- 2022
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Abstract
- The theorization of multimodality in academic scholarship is disconnected from how it is conceptualized by children. To bridge this gap, we analyzed 75 interviews with children about their digital video making. Analysis of their responses demonstrates children's socially-embedded, age-specific understandings of how modes operate, as well as when and why to employ them. In many cases, children's ideas ran counter to formal semiotic grammars and metalanguages of design. Bridging Systemic Functional Linguistics and social semiotics approaches with work in transliteracies, we argue for the need to advance age-centric social semiotic theories that center children's voices, purposes, and capacity to generate theory.
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1086-296X and 1554-8430
- Volume :
- 54
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- ERIC
- Journal :
- Journal of Literacy Research
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- EJ1349929
- Document Type :
- Journal Articles<br />Reports - Research
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1177/1086296X221116862