Blog 4

The three parts of multi-literacy broken down are the why, what, and how. The definition states in the book Multiliteracies: the Beginning of an Idea “Multiliteracies- a word we chose because it describes two important arguments we might have with emerging cultural, institutional, and global order” (Cope 5). The first argument is correlated with meaning and mode and the second argument relates to global connectedness. Some terms that are focused on throughout the book are six design elements which are linguistic meaning, visual meaning, audio meaning, gestural meaning, spatial meaning, and the multimodal patterns. These terms are important because they are the “metalanguages that describe and explain patterns of meaning” (25).