Multimodal Communication: Current and Future Trends

Dear Colleagues,

The goal of this Special Issue is to address and disseminate state-of-the-art research and development in the field of multimodal communication. Spoken and written discourses often express and make meaning in combination with nonlinguistic modes. It is well recognised that the impact and effectiveness of communication is normally enhanced if multiple modes of expression are used. Multimodal discourse analysis has been widely researched, and it has now positioned itself as a scientific field. Furthermore, multimodal approaches and applications keep developing in our increasingly digital and multilingual world. Therefore, this Special Issue calls for papers that present theoretical and empirical investigations that update, reaffirm, or expand previous research, and that open up avenues for future studies. Contributions are welcome from but not limited to the fields of applied linguistics, discourse analysis, formal linguistics, and sociolinguistics. Special consideration will be given to papers that examine multimodal communication through a multilingual lens and to contributions that analyse multimodality in language learning contexts. We welcome submissions on issues including but not limited to the topics suggested below:

• English as a first and further language;
• Multimodality in first language acquisition;
• Multimodality in second and further language learning;
• Multimodal language teaching;
• Multimodal literacy learning in teacher education;
• Multimodal discourse analysis in multilingual contexts;
• Multimodal deixis;
• Gestures in narrative;
• Linguistic description of human body movements;
• Video and picture descriptions as data collection methods for linguistic analysis.

Dr. Martina Irsara
Guest Editor

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• Language learning
• Language teaching
• Multilingualism
• Words and gestures
• Words and gaze
• Words and images
• Communicative strategies
• Meaning-making mechanisms
• Deixis
• Adverbial and nominal demonstratives
• Extralinguistic situation
• Exophora
• Context
• Discourse analysis