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Multimodal Texts

Many texts use multiple modes of communication, known as being multimodal, to convey meaning. Modes include written and spoken language as well as visual, audio, gestural, tactile, and spatial patterns. Multimodal texts combine two or more of these modes, including linguistic, visual, audio, gestural, and spatial, and can be print-based, digital, or live performances that require different modes working together to create meaning. Most texts today are multimodal as they incorporate different modes to effectively communicate information.

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Multimodal Texts

Many texts use multiple modes of communication, known as being multimodal, to convey meaning. Modes include written and spoken language as well as visual, audio, gestural, tactile, and spatial patterns. Multimodal texts combine two or more of these modes, including linguistic, visual, audio, gestural, and spatial, and can be print-based, digital, or live performances that require different modes working together to create meaning. Most texts today are multimodal as they incorporate different modes to effectively communicate information.

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Multimodal texts

Many texts are multimodal, where meaning


is communicated through combinations of
two or more modes. Modes include written
language, spoken language, and patterns of
meaning that are visual, audio, gestural,
tactile and spatial.
Multimodal text can be print, physical or digital
• Linguistic: vocabulary, structure, grammar of
oral/written language
• Visual: colour, vectors and viewpoint in still
and moving images
• Audio: volume, pitch and rhythm of music
and sound effects
• Gestural: movement, facial expression and
body language
• Spatial: proximity, direction, position of
layout, organisation of objects in space.
Multimodal is the combination of two or more
of these modes to create meaning.
Multimodal texts can be printed which includes
picture books, text books, graphic novels,
comics, and posters, where meaning is
conveyed to the reader through varying
combinations of visual (still image) written
language, and spatial modes.
Digital multimodal texts, such as film, animation,
slide shows, e-posters, digital stories, and web
pages, convey meaning through combinations of
written and spoken language, visual (still and
moving image), audio, gestural and spatial
modes.
Live multimodal texts, for example, dance,
performance, and oral storytelling, convey
meaning through combinations of modes such
as gestural, spatial, spoken language, and audio.
Most of the texts that we use are multimodal,
including picture books, text books, graphic
novels, films, e-posters, web pages, and oral
storytelling as they require different modes to
be used to make meaning.

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