…. is the work of Sigrd Norris.
What a SENSATION she is!!
The lovely Roberta Taylor recommended Sigrid’s work to me and I will be EATING up her book: Analyzing Multimodal Interaction.
We learned from Halliday that language is the model from which we deduce grammar; Norris is doing this with multimodal communication.
I think that we need to respond to meanings and analyse where those meanings come from in order to work out what the grammar is. Norris’s work takes us through SLOWLY and carefully how to do just that.
This is the book to read.
Just thought I’d catch up on blogging again. the open learning site looks great. Also the SigirdNorris book. I’m thinking of using a multi modal anlysis for my research so the book might prove to be useful.
Comment by Hilda — November 15, 2006 @ 1:08 pm
Hi Hilda!! Nice to see you again! Glad you popped by and good luck with the analysis - do you know yet what you will analyse?
Comment by DrJoolz — November 15, 2006 @ 8:47 pm
God. I have to order it NOW.
Comment by Kate Pahl — November 17, 2006 @ 2:06 pm