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=The Multimodal Text =

The many modes of the representation and forms of text present a challenge to develop the literacies of students. These are multiliteracies and need to be developed to be able to analyse and evaluate the multimodal text. The Multimodal text is one where meaning is conveyed by more that one mode.

Dual voiced
 * Text
 * Image

The multimodal text works through the fact of communication through more than one mode.
 * Iconic
 * reading the symbols
 * requiring cultural knowledge
 * developing an understanding of the intertextual
 * Conventional
 * the linear written text


 * Breaking the visual code: **

What can you read into the elements of the visual, thinking of issues such as
 * colour
 * frame
 * line
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">angle
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">perspective
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">vectors
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">modalities
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">postion of the viewer

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The metafictive

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 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">the verbal and visual elements often contradict
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">meaning is constructed from the juxtaposition of the text
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">the distinction between popular and high culture is blurred
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">there are blurred boundaries between genre categories
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">blurred relationship between the author, narrator, illustrator, reader
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">multiple pathways
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">literary traditions / conventions subverted
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">intertextuality often explicit, metatextual (Derouet, 2010)