Communicating Research at International Conferences: A Multimodal Analysis of an Intercultural or a Disciplinary Specific Genre?

摘要: In this study we set out to explore how successful academic speakers, who use English as an additional language (EAL), combine “modes”, that is ways of representing and communicating meaning, such speech, body language, written texts non-verbal materials, in their oral paper presentations at international conferences. This combination several semiotic modes the design a product or event defined by Kress Leeuwen (2001: 20) called “multimodality”. To determine effective presenters modes, analysed multimodal discourse four 20-min talks, two from social sciences technical sciences, which had been highly rated peers. addition, speakers were interviewed gather insight whether conferences are intercultural discipline specific genres. The results qualitative lend support hypothesis tend variety either simultaneously consecutively convey meanings. so far question may be considered genres, it appears some whereas they Nevertheless, pervasive technology growing EAL may, time, lead many fields both hard soft have presentation genre. These findings, although limited, can helpful for devising strategies academics, especially those EAL, should keep mind when preparing carrying audiences.