Modes and meaning systems

We can use five broad semiotic or meaning making systems to talk about how we create meaning: written-linguistic, visual, audio, gestural, and spatial patterns of meaning New London Group (1996).

Multimodal is the dynamic convergence of two or more communication modes within the same text and where all modes are attended to as part of meaning-making (The New London Group, 1996). Most of the texts we use are multimodal, including books when we take the visual and design elements into account.