My research examines how meaning is created across different modes of communication, with a particular focus on the relationships between language, images, gesture, and other semiotic resources. Drawing on Systemic Functional Linguistics, multimodal discourse analysis, and social semiotics, I investigate how verbal and visual elements interact to communicate ideas, shape interpretations, and influence audience engagement.
A major area of my research concerns student presentations and multimodal communication in educational contexts. I explore how presenters integrate spoken language, body language, and visual materials on slides, and how insights from multimodal research can be applied to improve communication, learning, and presentation effectiveness. I am also interested in innovative pedagogical approaches, including the use of visuals, conceptual metaphors, and creativity-oriented activities in foreign language education.
More recently, my work has expanded to the study of generative AI and visual meaning-making. I investigate how text-to-image systems represent concepts, construct symbolic meanings, and employ visual-verbal relationships that extend beyond the information explicitly provided in prompts. Through this research, I aim to contribute to a better understanding of contemporary AI-generated communication and to develop AI-assisted methodologies for large-scale multimodal discourse analysis.
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