Research on multimodal metaphor
Research projects
1) Innovation Project of Guangxi Graduate Education (a provincial level project) Title : On Construction Mechanism of Multimodal Metaphors in Guangxi Tourism
1) The project of my master thesis Title : On Representation Mechanism of Multimodal Metaphors in Public
Service Advertising Focus: A new annotation method
Graduates of Foreign Studies 4) 2017.11, Tongji University, The 1st National Conference on Multimodality. 5) 2017.6, The 1st SISU Biennial International Conference on Linguistics. 6) 2017. 10, Jiangnan University, the 6th National Forum on Linguistics and Semiotics. 7) 2013.5 Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, the 12th International Forum on Cognitive
Task 2: A Skimming practice: Going through the text and complete the tasks below
1) to find out the discoveries of human-genome project in the text; 2) to find out the “worries” about the discoveries presented in the text.
Complete the after-class exerof My Past Research
Outline
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Teaching Plan of Unit 12 The Human Map
Wang Xiaoping School of Foreign Languages, Soochow University
Outline
A General Introduction My Teaching Design A Retrospect of My Past Research Experience
Research on critical multimodal discourse studies
Academic papers
Two relevant papers are published or being peer-reviewed:
Other Research experiences
Conference Presentations
Teaching methods: Task-based Approach and communicative approach
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2. My Teaching Design
My Teaching Design
Lead-in (10 minutes) Global reading (15 minutes) Close reading (50 minutes) Evaluation (14 minutes) Assignments (1 minutes)
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1. A General Introduction
A General Introduction
Text type: An exposition titled as “The Human Map”
Target students: Non-English majors from different academic fields
Teaching objectives: L-K-A
Language target: to master the relevant terms and expressions of “genome” Knowledge target: to learn and understand of some basics of “genome” Ability target: to arouse student’s critical thoughts on “genome” from different perspectives
the cognitive processes of the dynamic production of the images and of the mediated ideologies Subjects: Cartoons on China from the Economist (2013-2018) Grants: 8,000 Yuan
1. Academic experiences
Orientation 1
Multimodal metaphor studies
Orientation 2
Critical multimodal discourse studies
Research on multimodal metaphor
Research projects
Questions: e.g. 1) what is the evidence for saying that “skin colour is a false way” to describe the differences of people? (Para. 5-7)
2) What are the possible applications of “genome” in medicine? (Para. 8-10) Discussion: e.g. Paragraph 8 says that even a fly has a great more number of genes than that of
Representation patterns of different types of multimodal metaphors; The cognitive mechanisms of metaphors of different patterns and modal synergy Subjects: Public Service Advertisements from CCTV (2008-2013)
Task 2: A Brainstorming of the achievements and disasters arising from genetic technology.
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Global reading (15 minutes)
Task 1: to check of the preview-work: analysis of the text structure
1) 2018. 8, University of Southern Denmark , The 9th International conference on multimodality. 2) 2018.10, Tongji University, The 13th National Symposium of Linguistics and Semiotics. 3) 2017.12, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, The 12th Jiangsu Academic Forum for
Task 3: Writing technique: question and answer (Para. 2, 3, 8)
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Evaluation (14 minutes)
Teacher’s evaluation: Ask the students to make an oral summary of “genome” Self-evaluation after class
Research on multimodal metaphor
Academic papers
Four relevant papers on multimodal metaphors
Research on critical multimodal discourse studies
Research project
Task 3: A Scanning practice
Read Para. 3-8 and figure out What are the functions of “genome”?
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Close reading (50 minutes)
Task 1: Read, answer and discuss
1) Postgraduate Research & Practice Innovation Program of Jiangsu Province Title : A Cognitive-critical Study of China’s Images Constructed in British News Cartoons Focus: how the visual images of the cartoons are instantiated from the meaning potentials;