Multimodalitätsforschung in Bremen
The Faculty of Linguistics and Literary Science at the University of Bremen, Germany, has a rich and impactful track record in pushing the boundaries of the study of mediated multimodality. Through internal, national, and international cooperative project work, we engage in both theory-building and empirical research on multimodal documents of numerous kinds. Our efforts rely on a variety of real-world examples and encompass the following research foci:
- Corpus-based analysis of film genre
- Multimodal discourse analyses
- Multimodal cohesion analyses
- Relations between comics and film
- Document design and critique
- Narratology and visual narration
- Film and materiality
- Political communication and persuasion in the digital age
- Multimodal genre mapping in online communication
- Multimodality and style
To cover this range of topics, we rely on transdisciplinary collaborations between Systemic Functional Linguistics, Formal Discourse Semantics and Communcation Science, Cognitive Psychology, Philosophy, and Visual Studies.
