Post by selfe2 on Oct 18, 2012 12:55:30 GMT -5
Most valuable from this paper:
In this session, Vivette Milson-Whyte talks about her study, which looked at male and female undergraduates in Jamaica and how they described their experiences. Particularly, Milson-White focused on how different participants valued writing differently, and how these different participants might be inflected by gender.
A response and challenge:
I would love the hear the voices of these students, love to hear how they, themselves, invested their own metaphors with meaning, love to hear their creole (like that of Mr. Survivor) and all the nuances that aural and/or visual their language practices could convey.
However, without video or audio evidence, I have only a one-dimensional sense of the individual participants. Imagine what we could see/hear/learn in a multimodal publication context. Such a representation wouldn’t be complete, of course, but it would offer more semiotic channels through which language information could be conveyed.
Such a multimodal environment could provide a point of resistance for alphabetic-only representations, for conveying the richness of the vernacular and the creole, for commentary by--and involvement of--individual participants through their own texts.
In this session, Vivette Milson-Whyte talks about her study, which looked at male and female undergraduates in Jamaica and how they described their experiences. Particularly, Milson-White focused on how different participants valued writing differently, and how these different participants might be inflected by gender.
A response and challenge:
I would love the hear the voices of these students, love to hear how they, themselves, invested their own metaphors with meaning, love to hear their creole (like that of Mr. Survivor) and all the nuances that aural and/or visual their language practices could convey.
However, without video or audio evidence, I have only a one-dimensional sense of the individual participants. Imagine what we could see/hear/learn in a multimodal publication context. Such a representation wouldn’t be complete, of course, but it would offer more semiotic channels through which language information could be conveyed.
Such a multimodal environment could provide a point of resistance for alphabetic-only representations, for conveying the richness of the vernacular and the creole, for commentary by--and involvement of--individual participants through their own texts.