The module gives students focused insights into theoretical and methodological approaches concerning the research of multimodal action and performances. It provides insights to understand performativity as active producing of socio-cultural realities and how performances as well as performatives, resist, embrace, and define historical and contemporary politics. Another focus of the module concerns multimodal nature of performances. During the course students learn specific ways to analyse multimodal materials and examine the use of multimodal resources such as speech, tone, gaze, body attitude or movement as a part of cultural action. The purpose is to study how multimodal performativity co-dependently affects the nature of the content and what is the overall significance of multimodality in human action.
Contents
Lectures and literature, case studies of live and virtual performances and other expressive events.
Teaching language
English
Modes of study
Option
1
Available for:
Degree Programme Students
Other Students
Open University Students
Doctoral Students
Exchange Students
Participation in course work
In
English
Written exam
In
English
Case studiesExercise(s)
In
English
Option
2
Available for:
Degree Programme Students
Other Students
Open University Students
Doctoral Students
Exchange Students
Participation in course work
In
English
Written exam
In
English
Some places available for master level exchange students and students from other Master's Degree Programmes. Students outside the Cultural Studies programme can complete 5 ECTS (lectures 2 ECTS and literature 3 ECTS).
Evaluation
Numeric 1-5.
Study materials
Kress, G. (2009) Multimodality: a Social Semiotic Approach to Contemporary Communication, London: Routledge.
Ventola, E., Charles, C. and Kaltenbacher, M. (2004) Perspectives on Multimodality. Amsterdam & Philadelphia, PA: John Benjamin’s Publishing Company.
In addition one of books below:
- Cope, B. and M. Kalantzis (eds.) (2000) Multiliteracies : Literacy Learning and the Design of Social Futures. London: Routledge.
- Fischer-Lichte, Erika (2008) The Transformative Power of Performance. A New Aesthetics. Routledge: New York.
- McNeill D. (1992) Hand and Mind: What Gestures Reveal about Thought. University Of Chicago Press.
- Zhao, S& Emilia D (2014). Critical Multimodal Studies of Popular Discourse. New York: Routledge.