Multimodal Analysis in Academic Settings

Belinda Crawford Camiciottoli is Associate Professor in the Department of Philology, Literature and Linguistics at the University of Pisa, Italy.Inmaculada Fortanet-Gómez is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English Language at Universitat Jaume I, Spain.

• Introduction Inmaculada Fortanet-Gómez and Belinda Crawford Camiciottoli Part I: Research Communications 1. Disagreements in Plenary Addresses as Multimodal Action Zuocheng Zhang 2. Contrastive Multimodal Analysis: Conference Plenary Lectures in English and in Spanish Noelia Ruiz-Madrid and Inmaculada Fortanet-Gómez 3. Intensifying Adverbs in Academic Spoken Discourse: A Contrastive Study between English and Spanish Miguel Ruiz Garrido 4. Visual Communication in Applied Linguistics Conference Presentations Giuliana Diani 5. A Multimodal Approach to Persuasion in Conference Presentations Julia Valeiras Jurado Part II: Classroom Applications 6. There is More to Multimodality than Discourse Features and Nonverbal Behaviors! Christine Räisänen 7. Elaborating Explanations during OpenCourseWare Humanities Lectures: The Interplay of Verbal and Nonverbal Strategies Belinda Crawford Camiciottoli 8. Multimodality in Business Communication: Body Language as a Visual Aid in Student Presentations Juan Carlos Palmer-Silveira 9. Assessing Multimodal Listening Mari Carmen Campoy-Cubillo and Mercedes Querol-Julián 10. Teaching Learners How to Use Pragmatic Routines through Audiovisual Material Silvia Bruti

"Multimodal Analysis in Academic Settings provides another angle on multimodality studies, and brings a little spice into the hitherto rather dry areas of conference presentation and teaching technique." —Christopher Taylor, University of Trieste, Italy