Shaping the North Through Multimodal and Intermedial Interaction (eBook, PDF)
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This book emphasizes humans interacting and participating in making meaning with multimodal resources and relating experience via intermedial means. The contributors explore diverse ways of mediating work, education, arts, and culture, and ask how interactive participation involves experiences of the north either as a physical setting or a more abstract cultural condition that shapes the activity. The ten chapters engage with topical theoretical debate and put novel methodology to test, providing essential reading for scholars and students in this rich and rapidly developing global field of research.…mehr

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This book emphasizes humans interacting and participating in making meaning with multimodal resources and relating experience via intermedial means. The contributors explore diverse ways of mediating work, education, arts, and culture, and ask how interactive participation involves experiences of the north either as a physical setting or a more abstract cultural condition that shapes the activity. The ten chapters engage with topical theoretical debate and put novel methodology to test, providing essential reading for scholars and students in this rich and rapidly developing global field of research.

Autorenporträt
Juha-Pekka Alarauhio is a lecturer in English at the University of Oulu. His research interests are in literary traditions, literary imitation and adaptation, and the depiction of sensory experience in literature. Building on his earlier work with Matthew Arnold’s epic poetry, Alarauhio is currently developing an updated, communicative approach to literary genre, using epic narratives from various periods as target texts for his case studies. In accordance with his interests in both linguistics and literature, Alarauhio has published in journals and book series such as the Nordic Journal of English Studies and John Benjamins’ FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures.
Tiina Räisänen works as a Senior Lecturer in English unit at the University of Oulu. Her research focuses on professional discourse and communication in various working life contexts, particularly in multilingual, lingua franca and multimodal environments, as well as professionals as language learners and global knowledge workers. Räisänen’s longitudinal research project Professional communicative repertoires was funded by the Academy of Finland in 2016- 2019. She has published in peer-reviewed international journals, such as IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, International Journal of Applied Linguistics, European Journal of International Management, and co-edited Dangerous multilingualism: Northern perspectives on order, purity and normality
Jarkko Toikkanen is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Oulu, Finland, and Adjunct Professor at Tampere University, Finland. His research is focused on the concept of intermedial experience, or how experiencing literature and other media produces sensory perceptions, both imagined and non-imagined, through medium-specific ways of presenting thatmediate the conceptual abstractions of language and culture. This three-tier model of mediality is a work in progress. Toikkanen has published articles, among others, on paranormal reality television, Wordsworth, and Poe, the monograph The Intermedial Experience of Horror: Suspended Failures (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), and two co-edited anthologies including The Grotesque and the Unnatural (Cambria Press, 2011).
Riikka Tumelius is a doctoral researcher at the University of Oulu. She is interested in the complexity of multimodal interaction in language learning, language teacher education and language pedagogies in the light of our technologically changing everyday life, which stems from her background as a foreign language teacher. Tumelius applies nexus analytical methodologies in her research. She has published nationally and internationally. Recently Tumelius has worked as a principal lecturer in Interpreting and Linguistic Accessibility at the Humak University of Applied Sciences, and as a university teacher in English Philology and in Foreign Language Didactics at the University of Oulu.