A critical discourse analysis of racial(13)

acommunityofpracticemakechoicesabouthowtouseactionstopositionthemselvesandothers(Norris,2004).

Multimodaldiscourseanalysisseestheuseofanysortofmediationaltool(verbal,textual,andgestural)tocreate

socialpracticesassocialaction.MDAbroadenstheedgesofdiscourseanalysistoincludegestures,objectsand

othernon-linguistictools,attendstothedistributionofmeaningacrossmode,andhowthispatterningconstitutes

socialaction.Byattendingtothepatternsofmodesthatcreateaparticularmeaning—gestures,proxemics,head

movementsandsoon,theanalystcandescribetherelationshipbetweentheformandfunctionofcommunicativemodes.

1Adetailedtimelineofthedatacollectionovertheyearlongcourseisavailableforinterestedreaders.

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