Carly Eivers
October 8, 2014
Enc 1102/ Blog Post #6
Multimodality has many
complex definitions put forth by Wysoki and Kress, but the two definitions
still focus on the same foundation of materials. This focus is based on the use
of different modes in a firm layout that portray to a certain audience in order
for the viewer, reader, or consumer to understand. Kress, during the interview
on YouTube, says that multimodality’s main purpose is communication. The
communication of certain materials in a way that is off-putting to the audience
may not convey anything at all, but if materials are put into modes that are
transmitted to an audience in a way that is understandable than the author’s
purpose will be achieved. The mode, in my opinion, is the source of how the
author may portray the material to the reader, but multimodality is the full
layout of how this information is being portrayed. In the long run, modes make
up multimodality. In Wysoki’s reading, a point that really interested me was
when he mentioned that it would not be acceptable for a paper to be turned in
that was written in crayon and on a colorful piece of paper, but this form of
writing was acceptable in the past. This is where the idea of time comes in for
the foundations of multimodality. Multimodality and modes, as agreed by both
Wysoki and Kress, change over time in order to convey to the right audience.
Wysoki believes time is very important in the function of modes and multimodality,
while it seemed to be that Kress, in his interview, viewed time as subliminal
to other sources.
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