Exploring Semiotic Remediation as Discourse Practice

Much As People Routinely Report And Re-voice Others' Words In Talk, People Also Routinely Re-perform Others' Gestures And Actions, Re-purpose Objects, Re-present Ideas In Different Media (as When A Story Is Read Aloud Or Enacted In Play), And Re-make Both Their Environments And Themselves Along The Way. Such Reworking Of Discourse Routinely Involves Multiple Kinds Of Signs (talk, Gesture, Writing, Design Of Spaces, Making Of Objects), Yet Researchers Have Been Slow To Take Up Semiotics (or Multimodality) As A Question Of Anything More Than Interesting Objects (like A Computer Screen With Words, Images, And Sounds). With A Rich Blend Of Sociocultural Theories And Methods, The Multidisciplinary Researchers In This Volume (representing Writing Studies, Communication Disorders, Communication Studies, Applied Linguistics, Anthropology And Education) Argue For Exploring Semiotic Remediation As A Question Of Discourse Practice. Introduction: Exploring Semiotic Remediation / P. Prior And J. Hengst -- The 'poetry Slam', Mathemagicians, And Middle-school Math: Tracing Trajectories Of Actors And Artifacts / K. Roozen -- 'on The Many Forms It Took Throughout': Engineering A Multipart, Multiple Site Rhetorical Event / J. Shipka -- Negotiating Moral Stance In Classroom Discussion About Literature: Entextualization And Recontextualization Processes In A Narrative Spell / M. Juzwik -- Semiotic Remediation, Conversational Narratives And Aphasia / J. Hengst -- Resemiotization Of A Policy Initiative: Promoting Open Disclosure As 'open Communication About Adverse Events' / R. Iedema -- Mediating Modes Of Representation In Understanding Science: The Case Of Genetic Inheritance / B. Saferstein And S. Sarangi -- Citizens Doing Science In Public Spaces: Rhetorical Invention, Semiotic Remediation, And Simple Little Texts / J.t. Grabill And S. Blythe -- Remaking Io: Semiotic Remediation In The Design Process / P. Prior -- Semiotic Remediation: Afterword / J. Irvine. Edited By Paul A. Prior, Julie A. Hengst.