Conveying emotion in a foreign language: multimodal resources in digital stories
Most of our communicative interactions involve emotion. Whether to inform, persuade or entertain, emotion is an essential strategy to engage audience and keep communication going. However, conveying emotions in discourse is particularly challenging for speakers of a foreign language, who tend to fin...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2021 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universidad de Alcalá (UAH) |
| Repositorio: | e_Buah Biblioteca Digital Universidad de Alcalá |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ebuah.uah.es:10017/67434 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/10017/67434 https://dx.doi.org/10.19272/202107702003 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Emotion Communication Foreign language Multimodality Digital stories Filología Philology |
| Sumario: | Most of our communicative interactions involve emotion. Whether to inform, persuade or entertain, emotion is an essential strategy to engage audience and keep communication going. However, conveying emotions in discourse is particularly challenging for speakers of a foreign language, who tend to find less emotional force in it than in their first language, especially when learnt for academic or employment purposes. And still, even in these situations, emotion is essential and inextricably intertwined with cognition and intersubjectivity. This paper supports this assertion by examining the case of the digital stories created by a group of students of English as a foreign language. They drew on multimodal resources to overcome their difficulties with the language and so managed to imbue their stories with emotion to make them meaningful and engaging for an unknown audience. In the process, they learnt that emotion plays a vital role in successful communication of any kind. |
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