Bringing a museum of language to life: the use of multimodal resources for interactional engagement in the Museu da Língua Portuguesa, Brazil.

The popular and highly successful Museu da Língua Portuguesa in São Paulo, Brazil, is renowned for its visitor engagement strategies. While this success is often attributed to high levels of technological interactivity enabled in the museum displays, we argue that the success of the museum can also...

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Autores: Heberle, Viviane Maria, Ravelli, Louise
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2016
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG)
Repositorio:Revista Brasileira de Lingüística Aplicada (Online)
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:periodicos.letras.ufmg.br:article/9920
Acceso en línea:http://www.periodicos.letras.ufmg.br/index.php/rbla/article/view/9920
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Museu da Língua Portuguesa; multimodal resources; social semiotic approach; interactive engagement; spatial discourse analysis.
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Sumario:The popular and highly successful Museu da Língua Portuguesa in São Paulo, Brazil, is renowned for its visitor engagement strategies. While this success is often attributed to high levels of technological interactivity enabled in the museum displays, we argue that the success of the museum can also be seen to come from a range of other multimodal resources. Using a social semiotic approach to spatial discourse analysis, we examine each of the three levels/floors of the museum, identifying the various meaning-making resources across the representational, organizational, and interactional metafunctions. These both differentiate the separate levels of the museum, and bring them together as a unified whole, creating a strong focus on cultural identity and on placing the visitor in the centre of meaning-making practices.