This ongoing project combines work and insights from the (traditionally separate) fields of stylistics and multimodality. While similar in essence in their grammatical approach to communication, there has until recently been very little contact between the two fields. In our view, multimodal theory can provide tools that will enable stylisticians to handle modes other than (and in addition to) language, and stylistics may, in turn, see to it that language gets a more prominent role in multimodal work than has previously been the case.
Publications include the monograph, Multimodal Stylistics of the Novel: More than Words (Nørgaard 2019), which presents a comprehensive framework for multimodal stylistic analysis of novels which, in addition to wording, make use of modes such as (special) typography, layout, colour, images and other graphic elements for their meaning-making. In “Kan man lære at skifte gear? En multimodal tilgang til plot i den litterære tekst” (2019), Alexandra Holsting, Cindie Maagaard and Nina Nørgaard explore the potential of combining their respective expertise in multimodality, linguistics and narratology for multimodal stylistic analysis of a novel by Dorthe Nors. Other recent publications examine literary manipulation as a multimodal phenomenon (Nørgaard 2020) and fictionality and the multimodal positioning of the reader in Christian Jungersen’s You Disappear (Nørgaard 2023).
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Please contact Nina Nørgaard.