Multimodal Digital Semiotics

The study course is primarily aimed at developing advanced and highly specialized proficiency level competences and skills of the students mastering study programmes in humanities, interdisciplinary STEM+ based, and information technology. The study course is intended to promote your awareness of various linguistic and non-linguistic semiotic systems and helps them develop a comprehensive understanding of the current trends in their change and development under the influence of digital technologies and media. Upon completion of the study course, you will:
  • advance your knowledge of various sign systems, textual interactions, conceptual relations, spatial relations, sequential relations, and syntagmatic and paradigmatic dimensions of signification;
  • develop advanced competence in creating and disseminating multimodal content via digital media;
  • establish a sound competence for the development, customization, and maintenance of digital semiotic resources.

About Instructors

Tatjana

Tatjana Smirnova is an associate professor at the Institute of Applied Linguistics, Faculty of E-Learning Technologies and Humanities at Riga Technical University (RTU). Her research interests cover linguistic iconicity, cross-disciplinary semiotics and axiological aspects of language use. She has authored and co-authored more than 40 publications on linguistic iconicity, functional approach to LSP translation, and aspects of LSP teaching. Tatjana Smirnova has extensive experience in LSP text translation and editing in such fields as civil engineering, architecture, and entrepreneurship, as well as institutional, administrative, and legal communication.

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  • 30 Topics
  • 33 Testi