Challenging instantiation in modelling movement-based multimodal communication

Wegener, Rebekah; Maiorani, Arianna

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“…Interestingly, the elaboration of the FGD also allowed for a more in-depth discussion of the discussion of instantiation as a foundational concept of Systemic Functional Linguistic theory, leading to its definition as a dynamic relationship and to a further elaboration of the theory of Context (see Maiorani and Wegener, 2022). However, the first FGD model in Figure 1 shows how some areas of analysis could not be fully developed without the use of a larger amount of data collected live from dancers: the whole model is based on the development of its theoretical foundations and on manual analysis performed on small scale video data and drawing on a solid knowledge of the range offered by choreographic affordances, especially in terms of ballet.…”

Section: The First Model Of the Functional Grammar Of Dancementioning

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The materiality key: how work on empirical data can improve analytical models and theoretical frameworks for multimodal discourse analysis

Maiorani

2024

Front. Commun.

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This article is a critical reflection on the way the notion of materiality informed the project and the development of The Kinesemiotic Body project carried out by a UK and German research teams and of the model of analysis it adopted, the Functional Grammar of Dance. It starts with an excursus of some of the most interesting developments in other discipline that turned to the investigation of materiality as an epistemological perspective, and it shows how the same type of focus has impacted on multimodal discourse analysis focusing on movement-based communication. The overarching theme that characterises this multidisciplinary attention to materiality is its anchoring function to the temporal and spatial coordinates in which social phenomena are contextualised, which is taken as the fundamental condition for shaping our perception and understanding of the world in all areas of experience and knowledge. A more specific example of how the notion of materiality impacted on the development of movement-based discourse analysis will be provided by an example of analysis of rich movement data captured live from professional dancers from the English National Ballet.

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Section: The First Model Of the Functional Grammar Of Dancementioning

confidence: 99%