Multimodal coherence research and its applications
Although it is nowadays a commonplace that communicative artefacts and
communicative behaviours almost always employ a variety of ‘modes’ of information
presentation, the issue of how such diverse contributions ‘cohere’ in
order to fulfill common communicative purposes is still an area of open debate.
This chapter presents a selective overview of the development and current
state of the art in approaches to multimodal coherence, focusing particularly
on work taking language as its starting point. Overviews and illustrations of
the approaches are given as well as a summary of some major challenges to be
addressed.
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