Book contents
- Analysing Religious Discourse
- Analysing Religious Discourse
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- 1 Analysing Religious Discourse: Introduction
- 2 Interaction
- 3 Ethnography
- 4 Narrative
- 5 Multimodality
- 6 Rhetoric
- 7 Translation
- 8 Institutions
- 9 Media
- 10 Community
- 11 Education
- 12 Inter-religious Dialogue
- 13 Rituals
- 14 Metaphor
- 15 Emotion
- 16 Identity
- 17 Cognition
- 18 Sacred Texts
- 19 Ecology
- 20 Conclusion
- Key Terms
- References
5 - Multimodality
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Book contents
- Analysing Religious Discourse
- Analysing Religious Discourse
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- 1 Analysing Religious Discourse: Introduction
- 2 Interaction
- 3 Ethnography
- 4 Narrative
- 5 Multimodality
- 6 Rhetoric
- 7 Translation
- 8 Institutions
- 9 Media
- 10 Community
- 11 Education
- 12 Inter-religious Dialogue
- 13 Rituals
- 14 Metaphor
- 15 Emotion
- 16 Identity
- 17 Cognition
- 18 Sacred Texts
- 19 Ecology
- 20 Conclusion
- Key Terms
- References
Summary
Focus on multimodality looks beyond spoken and written language to how people communicate about their religious experiences using other resources, like gesture, showing how insights can be gleaned about how people think and talk about their experiences by specifically looking at how they gesture.
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