About this Research Topic
Movement-based communication happens in very diversified contexts and it fulfils different communicative functions: from performance spaces to the public sphere to digital environments, movement-based communication is organized and encoded in different ways and through different modes. One example of a truly interdisciplinary research area that studies movement-based communication is Kinesemiotics. Using dance as a starting point and drawing on Multimodal Discourse Analysis, Linguistics, Semiotics, Computer Science and Engineering, we see Kinesemiotics as an area of vivid interdisciplinary work that also includes dance studies, cognitive and neuroscience, psychology, applied technologies. The aim of this Research Topic is to investigate how meaning is created and conveyed in all forms of movement-based communication that involve an element of performance and that intentionally use movement in interplay with other semiotic systems. This Topic also strongly wishes to foster truly interdisciplinary work that challenges the traditional disciplinary boundaries by offering a ‘meeting point’ that welcomes all varieties of perspectives and approaches that can inform and develop this fascinating area of multimodality studies.
This Research Topic wants to provide an opportunity of encounter and dialogues for a range of studies that can represent the richness of movement-based communication as an emerging, interdisciplinary research area within Multimodality studies.
Mutimodality has often been appropriated by specific schools of thought that provided groundbreaking analytical tools but that at the same time lost contact with theoretical developments and analytical frameworks generated by a much more diversified ensemble of approaches. In particular, we recognize the complexity of the notion of mode that can be approached from different points of view and that involves serious consideration of materiality.
This collection of works also seeks to provide scholars from traditionally ‘distant’ areas of research the opportunity to showcase the benefits and advances achieved through interdisciplinary work; it wishes to elicit exchange and interaction among disciplines and approaches that focus on multimodal human communication in context, in the belief that the study of movement-based communication cannot and should not be limited to the traditional focus on gesture+verbal communication interplay. This is a unique opportunity to survey this growing area of Multimodality studies and provide an overview of its current expansions and ramifications.
We are looking for research that sets out to investigate forms of multimodal communication that include movement-based meaning-making practices as their main or one of their main components. Articles should propose both theoretical elaborations that inform an original methodology and one or more examples of its application. We particularly welcome interdisciplinary work that focuses on movement-based communication in connection with, but not exclusively
• dance and physical theatre
• music and sound
• film and the moving image
• martial arts and performative sports.
This Research Topic wants to provide an opportunity of encounter and dialogues for a range of studies that can represent the richness of movement-based communication as an emerging, interdisciplinary research area within Multimodality studies.
Mutimodality has often been appropriated by specific schools of thought that provided groundbreaking analytical tools but that at the same time lost contact with theoretical developments and analytical frameworks generated by a much more diversified ensemble of approaches. In particular, we recognize the complexity of the notion of mode that can be approached from different points of view and that involves serious consideration of materiality.
This collection of works also seeks to provide scholars from traditionally ‘distant’ areas of research the opportunity to showcase the benefits and advances achieved through interdisciplinary work; it wishes to elicit exchange and interaction among disciplines and approaches that focus on multimodal human communication in context, in the belief that the study of movement-based communication cannot and should not be limited to the traditional focus on gesture+verbal communication interplay. This is a unique opportunity to survey this growing area of Multimodality studies and provide an overview of its current expansions and ramifications.
We are looking for research that sets out to investigate forms of multimodal communication that include movement-based meaning-making practices as their main or one of their main components. Articles should propose both theoretical elaborations that inform an original methodology and one or more examples of its application. We particularly welcome interdisciplinary work that focuses on movement-based communication in connection with, but not exclusively
• dance and physical theatre
• music and sound
• film and the moving image
• martial arts and performative sports.
Keywords: Movement, Embodiment, Kinesemiotics, Movement-based Communication
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