Multimodal discourse strategies of factuality and subjectivity in educational digital storytelling

2012

As new technologies continue to emerge, students and lecturers are provided with new educational tools. One such tool, which is increasingly used in higher education, is digital storytelling, i.e. multi-media digital narratives. Despite the increasing attention that education and media scholars have paid to digital storytelling, there is scant research examining digital narratives from a discourseanalytic perspective. This paper addresses this gap in the literature and, in line with the belief that individuals make meaning through a range of semiotic devices, including, among others, language, sound, graphics and text, it aims to examine discourse strategies of factuality and subjectivity i…

Estrategias de comunicación y secuencias tópicas en el discurso conversacional de estudiantes españoles de inglés

1992

Discourse Analysis: Activity Book

2019

The present book contains 10 units. Each unit opens with a brief introduction and is followed by a number of tasks to be completed by students either as in-class or take-away activities. These are meant to reinforce the knowledge of the subject by guiding students in applying a range of tools for the analysis of discourse to excerpts from authentic languae use