College English Jan 2016

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

Jody Shipka

Abstract

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.

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College English
Published
2016-01-01
DOI
10.58680/ce201627656
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multimodality translingualism
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