{"id":18312,"date":"2016-06-02T20:37:52","date_gmt":"2016-06-03T00:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/?p=18312"},"modified":"2016-06-08T00:35:42","modified_gmt":"2016-06-08T04:35:42","slug":"alphabetic-text-as-the-only-text","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/02\/alphabetic-text-as-the-only-text\/","title":{"rendered":"Alphabetic Text as the Only Text"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/owYhoe\" title=\"abc album p1\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/14790325161_58b93432fb_o-2-227x300.jpg?resize=227%2C300\" alt=\"Page from a French ABC picture book for the letter A, showing asparagus and an ostrich\" width=\"227\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-18326\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/14790325161_58b93432fb_o-2.jpg?resize=227%2C300&amp;ssl=1 227w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/14790325161_58b93432fb_o-2.jpg?w=485&amp;ssl=1 485w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 227px) 100vw, 227px\" \/><\/a>I\u2019m befuddled by this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mla.org\/Publications\/Book-Publications\/MLA-Book-Series\/New-Nonseries-Volumes-in-Development\/Call-for-Essay-Proposals-for-a-Volume-on-the-Changing-Role-of-Writing-in-Composition\" title=\"MLA call for proposals for a volume on the Changing Role of Writing in Composition\" target=\"_blank\">MLA call for proposals for a volume on the Changing Role of Writing in Composition<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Everything I understand about multimodal texts tells me that any alphabetic text is not tapping the linguistic mode alone; but from reading this CFP, you\u2019d think that spatial and visual modes (for say a paperback book) weren\u2019t a thing until this \u201cturn toward multimodality.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve read and reread the call, trying to figure it out. I thought maybe I was just not getting something (blame imposter syndrome). For the life of me though, I can\u2019t figure out how to respond to that while talking ONLY about alphabetic text (which is culturally limiting in addition to not making sense in a multimodal context). I\u2019d really love to submit something to the call; but I can\u2019t figure out how to work within such a limited vision of what it is to be multimodal.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"image-credit\">&nbsp;<\/span><br \/>\nImage: <a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/owYhoe\" title=\"abc album p1\" target=\"_blank\">abc album p1 by patricia m, on Flickr, used under the CC BY-SA 2.0 license<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m befuddled by this MLA call for proposals for a volume on the Changing Role of Writing in Composition. Everything I understand about multimodal texts tells me that any alphabetic text is not tapping the linguistic mode alone; but from reading this CFP, you\u2019d think that spatial and visual modes (for say a paperback book) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[398,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-teaching-with-digital-tools"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pqzI8-4Lm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18312"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18347,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18312\/revisions\/18347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}