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John Bateman

John Arnold Bateman is a British linguist and semiotician known for his research on natural language generation and multimodality. He has worked at Kyoto University, the USC Information Sciences Institute, the German National Research Center for Information Technology, Saarland University, and the University of Stirling. As of 2023, he is Professor of English Applied Linguistics at the University of Bremen in Germany.

Resources

  • The Relevance of Multimodality Theory for the Future of the Digital Humanities

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    In this ACDH-CH Lecture, John Bateman explores how multimodal semiotics can contribute to the future of Digital Humanities. Moving beyond text-centred approaches, he introduces key concepts such as semiotic modes, materiality, media, discourse semantics, and corpus-based analysis. The lecture argues that multimodal theory offers principled methods for analysing complex cultural artefacts while supporting scalable, interdisciplinary research practices in the Digital Humanities.
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    • John Bateman