Abstract
This article aims to contribute to the understanding of the theory of multiliteracies. It presents a case study of a Story App, which is part of a kit of tangible and digital storytelling materials that aim at promoting intercultural competence in elementary school children. The theme of the Story App under study is the cultural diversity and the Eco diversity of Brazil. The presented analysis, supported by central categories of Systemic-Functional Linguistics, Social Semiotic and the analysis of visual narratives, focuses on the characterization of the narrative genre and on the description of the ideational meanings represented in verbal, visual and aural modes in each episode of the text and of the intermodal meaning relationships established therein. The results allow the characterization of the interactive story as a narrative anecdote, in which the representation of diversity comprises a multimodal ensemble. These results allow the discussion of this Story App as instantiating central assumptions of the theory of multiliteracies, namely, the multimodality of texts designed upon the affordances of digital media; the thematization of cultural diversity as learning content and the call for a new pedagogy. The article ends with the identification of dimensions for future work.
Translated title of the contribution | Toward the construction of the multiliteracies theory: Ideational dimensions (and pedagogical implications) of the textual multimodality of a story app for children |
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Original language | Portuguese |
Pages (from-to) | 65-89 |
Number of pages | 25 |
Journal | Calidoscópio |
Volume | 20 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2022 |
Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Multiliteracies
- Multimodality
- Diversity