Exploring meaning-making practices via co-speech gestures in TED Talks

Masi, Silvia

doi:10.1080/1051144x.2020.1826223

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Section: Previous Studies On the Multimodal Nature Of Ted Talksmentioning

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“…The multimodal nature of TED Talks has been described in previous studies (Harrison, 2021;Masi, 2016Masi, , 2020. By analyzing the synchronization of gestures and speech, Masi (2016Masi ( , 2020 observed that hand gestures are often used to reinforce meaning in abstract concepts and promote audience involvement. Harrison (2021) investigated the speech-gesture-slide interplay in two sample talks through the lens of showing as sense-making and found that the orchestration of the three modes helped the audience make sense of images on slides, understand, and remain engaged in the talk.…”

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Designing Knowledge Dissemination in a Digital Era – Analysing TED Talk’s Multimodal Orchestration

Jiang¹,

Lim

2022

CJLT

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Online learning has gained increasing attention during the COVID-19 pandemic. Teachers face social exigencies to design ways of knowledge dissemination in online instruction. We posit that understanding how knowledge can be represented in successful online academic genres can inform teachers on how they can design students’ online learning experiences. This study examined how scientific knowledge is disseminated in one of the most widespread academic genres, TED Talks, which share discoursal similarities with other academic genres such as online lectures. This study adopted a systemic functional multimodal discourse analysis approach to explore how a presenter used speech, images, and gestures to disseminate knowledge. The analysis shows that a presenter orchestrates speech, images, and gestures strategically to clarify the scientific ideas and engage the audience. Based on understanding how the three semiotic modes are used to disseminate scientific knowledge in accessible and engaging ways, this paper discusses how insights on multimodal orchestration can function as a heuristic tool to inform design in online learning.

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Section: Previous Studies On the Multimodal Nature Of Ted Talksmentioning

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Designing Knowledge Dissemination in a Digital Era – Analysing TED Talk’s Multimodal Orchestration

Jiang¹,

Lim

2022

CJLT

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“…We posit that the presenter's use of a range of semiotic modes, such as gestures and slides, can work with the speech to communicate scientific ideas in accessible and engaging ways as well (Mattiello, 2019). thus far, there have been few studies on the use of multimodal modes in ted talks (Harrison, 2021;Masi, 2016Masi, , 2020Wu & Qu, 2020;xia & Hafner, 2021). Masi has investigated the presenters' use of hand gestures and found that metaphoric gestures are often used to reinforce the meanings of abstract notions, while deictic gestures are used to enhance audience involvement.…”

Section: The Features and Forms Of Ted Talksmentioning

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“…In addition, co-speech gestures also function to engage the audience (Masi, 2016). she argues that the hand gestures used in ted talks are a complex multisemiotic system, and further research is needed to account for the interplay of different modes (Masi, 2020).…”

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Popularizing science – Analyzing the presenter’s multimodal orchestration in a TED Talk

Jiang

Lim

2022

Ibérica

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In today’s neoliberal economy, digital platforms have led to a proliferation in science popularization where scientists package their messages for the wider public. Our study explores how science ideas are disseminated in one of the most widespread digitally mediated genres of science popularisation, the TED talks. We adopt a multimodal discourse analysis approach to explore how the presenter orchestrates her speech, visuals on slides, and hand gestures to achieve the communicative purposes of the TED talk. From the analysis, it is observed that the presenter uses many specific linguistic choices to clarify the ideas and build the speaker’s authority. These language choices are supported by visual choices and gestures. We unpack the presenter’s multimodal semiotic choices and examine how they work together to communicate scientific ideas to the layman and engage with the audience. Our study reveals a deeper understanding on the power of language, visuals, and gestures as communicative tools in presentations, and sheds light on how the three modes are orchestrated to present scientific ideas in an accessible and engaging manner as part of science popularization.

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“…In addition, the literature review showed numerous studies that focused on using TTs in developing a variety of language and translation skills such as vocabulary (Hsu, 2020;Nurmukhamedov, 2017;Nguyen and Boers, 2019); reading comprehension skills (Allagui, 2021;Bianchi and Marenzi, 2016); writing and summarization skills (Howard, 2017;Hashimoto, Fukuda and Okazaki, 2015); English for academic purposes (Leopold, 2016); pragmatic skills such as co-speech gestures and move analysis (Masi, 2020;Ratanakul, 2017); discourse analysis such as macro discourse markers (Uicheng and Crabtree 2018); and translation skills (Comas-Quinn and Fuertes Gutiérrez, 2019).…”

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TED Talks as a Listening Resource in the EFL College Classroom

Al-Jarf

2021

IJLLS

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The article proposes a model for integrating TED Talks (TTs) in EFL college listening practice. It shows instructors where TTs can be located, gives reasons for using TTs, criteria for selecting TTs, the listening skills that can be developed, and an instructional strategy. TTs provide a variety of real-life themes, speakers, motivation, and inspiration. They save instructors’ time and effort as they are available on You Tube, mobile apps or in the TED website. In selecting TTs, the instructor should take into consideration the students' interests, difficulty level of the TT language and content, its length in minutes, and speed and accent of the speaker. Before watching a TT, she posts the title of the TT on an LMS or social media platform. She sets goals for listening and gives pre-questions to help the students comprehend the TT content. The students view the TTs on their smart phones in the classroom or at home; individually, in pair, or small groups; synchronously or asynchronously. While listening, the students take notes, and answer the questions. After listening, they discuss their answers. The instructor serves as a facilitator. She gives feedback, encouragement, and help with difficulties. Further recommendations for enhancing EFL college students’ listening skills and for extending the use of TTs to interpreting courses are given.

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Exploring meaning-making practices via co-speech gestures in TED Talks

Abstract: The TED talk (www.ted.com) is a hybrid popularising genre empowered by contemporary digital technologies in which different semiotic modes feature prominently and which is being extensively used in educational settings. This study

Cited by 9 publications

References 25 publications

Designing Knowledge Dissemination in a Digital Era – Analysing TED Talk’s Multimodal Orchestration

Designing Knowledge Dissemination in a Digital Era – Analysing TED Talk’s Multimodal Orchestration

Popularizing science – Analyzing the presenter’s multimodal orchestration in a TED Talk

TED Talks as a Listening Resource in the EFL College Classroom

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