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The move from page to screen: the multimodal reshaping of school English

Jewitt, Carey (2002) The move from page to screen: the multimodal reshaping of school English. Visual Communication, 1 (2). pp. 171-196. ISSN 14703572

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/147035720200100203

Abstract

In the move from page to screen a range of representational modes (including image, movement, gesture, and voice) are available as meaning-making resources. In this paper I focus on the reshaping of the entity „character‟ in the transformation of the novel Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck, 1937), to CD-ROM (1996). Through detailed analysis I demonstrate that the shift from written page to multimodal screen entails a shift in the construction of the entity „character‟. I also suggest that students‟ interaction with the resources of the CD-ROM as a visual text demand that „reading‟ and the process of learning within school English be thought of as more than a linguistic accomplishment.

Item Type: Article
Additional Information: Copyright © 2002 by SAGE Publications
Uncontrolled Keywords: Multimodality; Learning; CD-ROM; School English; Character
Subjects: Departments > London Knowledge Lab
Depositing User: IOE Repository Editor (2)
Date Deposited: 08 Jan 2010 12:54
Last Modified: 26 Jun 2012 22:24
URI: http://eprints.ioe.ac.uk/id/eprint/856

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