Uptake Post #7

Multimodality in discourse analytical approaches: Challenges and priorities – The Visual and Multimodal Research Forum
   In the past, my main experience with multimodality was when people or teachers would mention being a visual learner vs hands on learner and all other similar ones. I find it very interesting how people can learn in such a variety of ways and have so many individual or unique strong-suits for how they learn best. Something that I am currently learning about multimodality is that it applies to more than that and it's about how people communicate in general. Some examples of forms (modes) of multimodal communication are aural, gestural, linguistic, oral, spatial, and verbal. I find understanding these different modes of communication to be pretty easy and not really an issue for this topic. Something that might be a little more difficult to understand is the spatial mode because it is more of an abstract one. An example for spatial might be while texting a friend I choose to send multiple messages back to back instead of sending one extended message with all of the information. These two choices of how to communicate with someone have different contexts and depending on the situation, one might be better suited for use. Continuing with the example of our genre of communication being texting, other modes like linguistic and verbal could also apply. Linguistics include all of the punctuation used in a text and whether or not a person decides to use capitalization as well. Personally I love the uniformity of all lowercase letters and often outside of formal works only use capital letters for emphasis. Anyways, I find the idea of different modes of communication to be very interesting and will definitely include that into my sort of people watching in the future to see how the different modes interact and/or affect each other. This also reminded me to always take the context of something into consideration because it can change a lot.

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