Diamantopoulou, Sophia; (2023) An interdisciplinary engagement with Kress’s social semiotic concept of agency: Future directions in multimodal research in museums and schools. Presented at: 5th International Webinar on Multimodal Discourse Analysis, Castellón de la Plana, Spain.

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This talk discusses instantiations of agency as key in the design of semiotic work we produce, arguing that multimodal texts bear traces of a dialogue between us and the institutions that regulate our semiotic action. This multimodal social semiotic theorization of agency is exemplified through multimodal texts: picture books in the English classroom, student’s movement in the math classroom, drawings from an archaeological site and visitors’ movement in museums. The discussion of agency is set against the backdrop of a retrospective to Gunther Kress’s work and the archaeology of multimodality, while mapping current debates and future directions in the field. Bibliography Cimasko, T. & Shin, D. (2017). Multimodal Resemiotization and Authorial Agency in an L2 Writing Classroom. Written Communication 34(4), 387 –413. Cope B, Kalantzis M (2020) Making Sense: Reference, Agency and Structure in a Grammar of Multimodal Meaning. Cambridge University Press. Diamantopoulou, S. (forthcoming) Children’s engagement with the pedagogic discourse as a political and social achievement: Semiotic practices in children’s visual representations. In Starc, S. and Komninos, N. (eds) Diamantopoulou, S. (2021). The multimodality of English as a school subject: Mapping meanings about literacy discourses on students' work in the case of a museum and a school project. In A. Baldry, N. Vasta (Eds.), Multiliteracy Advances and Challenges in Hypermedia Envrironments. Udine, Italy: Udine University. Diamantopoulou, S., & Ørevik, S. (2021). Multimodality in English language learning: The case of EAL. In Diamantopoulou, S. & Ørevik, S. (Eds.). (2022). Multimodality in English Language Learning. Routledge. Jewitt, C., Bezemer, J., & O'Halloran, K. (2016). Introducing Multimodality (1st ed.). Routledge. Kress, G. (2010). Multimodality: A social semiotic approach to contemporary communication. Abingdon: Routledge. Klemencic, M. (2015). What is student agency: An ontological exploration in the context of research on student engagement. In KLEMENČIČ, M., BERGAN, S., PRIMOŽIČ, R. (eds.) Student engagement in Europe: society, higher education and student governance (pp. 11-29). Council of Europe Higher Education Series No. 20. Strasbourg: Council of Europe Publishing. Lim, F. V. & Nguyen, T. T. H. (2022). ‘If you have the freedom, you don’t need to even think hard’ – considerations in designing for student agency through digital multimodal composing in the language classroom. Language and Education https://doi.org/10.1080/09500782.2022.2107875

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