Multimodality

doi:10.1017/9781108863957.005

5 - Multimodality

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 June 2021

Sarah Turner

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Stephen Pihlaja

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Stephen Pihlaja: Affiliation:
Newman University

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Focus on multimodality looks beyond spoken and written language to how people communicate about their religious experiences using other resources, like gesture, showing how insights can be gleaned about how people think and talk about their experiences by specifically looking at how they gesture.

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religion language belief multimodality gesture images conversion narrative

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Information: Analysing Religious Discourse , pp. 70 - 90

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108863957.005 [Opens in a new window]

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Print publication year: 2021

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