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Speaking through images: Implementing interaction through the visual language of The Economist. When the visual language becomes a useful tool to activate and improve communicative competence.
Leonzini, Luisella
2012
Abstract
This paper will give examples of how the multi-semiotic visual language of “The Economist” provides a resourceful tool for triggering interaction and implementing learners’ spoken production. Images may activate various forms of communication by depicting metaphors as semantic shifts; the metaphorical semiotic code needs to be contextualised, with vehicle, topic and ground decoded first and then re-constructed as the final step. As a result the viewer will be involved in a process of interactive interdependence between shifted and conventional constructions.
Publisher
EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste
Source
Luisella Leonzini , "Speaking through images: Implementing interaction through the visual language of The Economist. When the visual language becomes a useful tool to activate and improve communicative competence.", in: Federica Gori, Christopher Taylor (a cura di), “Aspetti della didattica e dell'apprendimento delle lingue straniere : contributi dei collaboratori del Centro Linguistico dell'Università di Trieste”, vol. 2, Trieste, EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste, 2012, pp. 56-77
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en
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