Mapping Multimodal Performance Studies

Maria Grazia Sindoni is Assistant Professor in English Linguistics and Translation at the University of Messina, Italy. She has published four books and several articles on systemic-functional linguistics, multimodality, critical discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, theories of semiosis of communication and computer-mediated interaction. Janina Wildfeuer is a Researcher at Bremen University, Germany, in the areas of multimodal film and (digital) media studies as well as linguistics, discourse analysis, and semiotics. Her recent publications include a monograph on Film Discourse Interpretation from 2014 as well as several edited collections on multimodality and film analysis.Kay L. O’Halloran is Professor in the School of Education, Faculty of Humanities at Curtin University. Her main research area is multimodal analysis, with a focus on digital and mixed methods approaches, mathematical and scientific discourse, and visual and multimodal literacy. She has established large interdisciplinary projects to develop interactive digital technologies and visualisation techniques.

• 1 Mapping Multimodal Performance Studies: An Introduction Maria Grazia Sindoni, Janina Wildfeuer, and Kay L. O’Halloran2 Multimodal Semiotics of Theatrical Performances Sabine Tan, Peter Wignell, and Kay L. O’Halloran3 Making Meaning Through Movement: A Functional Grammar of Dance Movement Arianna Maiorani4 The Phantoms of the Opera: Towards a Multi-Dimensional Interpretative Framework of Analysis Fabio Rossi and Maria Grazia Sindoni5 The Eyes Have It: ‘In the Gaze … Everything Happened’Maree Stenglin6 Interactive Cognitive Subsystems and Dance: Choreographic Creativity Rebecca Weber7 Film Space as Theatrical Performing Space: A Multimodal Discourse Approach to Transmedial AnalysisChiao-I Tseng8 Who’s afraid of Conchita Wurst? Drag Performers and the Construction of Multimodal Prosody Giuseppe Balirano9 From Text to Performance: Discourse Analytical Thoughts on New Forms of Performances in Social MediaJanina Wildfeuer