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Chapter 10 - Making spatial, tactile and gestural meanings

from Part C - The ‘What’ of Literacies

Mary Kalantzis
Affiliation:
University of Illinois
Bill Cope
Affiliation:
University of Illinois
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This chapter will explore three more important modes of meaning. Spatial meanings are framed by shape, proximity and movement. Tactile meanings capture our interactions with objects. Gestural meanings are bodily expressions, ranging from hand and arm movement, to facial expressions, to bodily presentations such as clothing, to body language. These modes of meaning are closely interconnected and offer productive connections to oral and written meanings in multimodal literacies environments.

Spatial meanings

The meanings of spaces and flows

Our spatial meanings are shaped in the places we inhabit, real and virtual, the way we move around in them and what we do in them. We see space and we also feel temperature and objects in space, so spatial meanings are closely connected to visual and tactile meanings.

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Literacies , pp. 281 - 302
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2012

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