Popularizing Science in the Digital Era

A Multimodal Genre Perspective on TED Talk Videos

Sichen Xia (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

160 Seiten

2023
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-26362-5 (ISBN)

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This book offers a comprehensive overview of TED talks as a digital-multimodal video genre, exploring the ways in which myriad rhetorical, structural, digital, and multimodal resources are used to communicate scientific knowledge to lay audiences.

Drawing on insights from genre analysis, the systemic functional approach to multimodal discourse analysis, and the social semiotic approach to multimodality, the volume examines the communicative contexts in which TED talks are constructed, their rhetorical structure, the deployment of multimodal tools, and diachronic developments. The book reflects on the ways in which TED talks are uniquely positioned to offer new insights into how experts disseminate scientific knowledge for non-specialist audiences, constructed as they are within a community defined by a fluidity and diversity of audiences and speakers. The volume offers strategies for not only making the process of disseminating specialized knowledge more engaging and accessible but also expanding their own semiotic and communicative repertoires, increasingly crucial in our digitally driven era.

This book will be of interest to students and scholars of English for Specific Purposes, multimodality, discourse analysis, and digital communication.

Dr. Sichen Xia is Lecturer at the School of Humanities and Social Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen. Her research interests include English for Specific Purposes, genre analysis, multimodality, scientific popularization, and digital literacy.

Contents

Introduction

Scientific popularization and TED talks

Digital communication, genre, and multimodality

The communicative context

Generic structure of TED talks

Multimodal strategies in TED talk videos

Diachronic changes in TED talk videos

Beyond TED talks: Towards a model

Appendix

References

Erscheinungsdatum	11.07.2023
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Studies in Multimodality
Zusatzinfo	6 Tables, black and white; 15 Line drawings, black and white; 15 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	467 g
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-032-26362-8 / 1032263628
ISBN-13	978-1-032-26362-5 / 9781032263625
Zustand	Neuware