多模态小品的问世与发展

The Growth and Development of Multimodal Texts

自本世纪以来,在多模态话语的大家庭中又诞生了一个新的成员,即多模态小品。它是一种提供一定信息量、有一定品位和文艺鉴赏价值的新的交际形式。在模态形式上,可分为文字、图片、音乐歌曲和视频四种形式,其中文字图片类又可细分为鼠标翻页和自动翻页。根据作者所搜集到的材料,特别是1092则采用PowerPoint制作的小品,本文主要探索了上述不同模态的组合,并按小品内容区分了人生感悟、文艺体育、历史人物、地理城市、科学技术、卫生保健、生物、节日风俗和其他共九个大类。最后,本文对这种小品的特征、问题和发展前景做了一定的探讨。

The 21^st century has witnessed the birth and development of a new member in the family of multimodal discourse, that is, muhimodal essay. This is a new form of communication which provides valuable information and possesses intrinsic quality as well as a discriminating taste in arts and literature. There are mainly four torms of modes, that is, language, pictures, music and songs and video productions, among which language and picture modes can be further divided into hand operation and automatic operation. Based on the data which the author got hold of, especially the 1092 PowerPoint essays, the paper explores the various combinations of the 4 mode forms and distinguishes 9 categories： reflections of life, arts and sports, historical figures, geography and cities, science and technolgy, hygiene and health, plants and animals, holidays and customs. Finally, the paper attempts to explore the features, problems and prospect of development of multimodal text.