Autore: Monti, Silvia
Titolo: «Repeat after me: “Silenzio, Bruno!”» Multimodality as a Cross-Cultural Pragmatic Portal in Multilingual Animated Films
Periodico: Textus
Anno: 2026 - Fascicolo: 1 - Pagina iniziale: 49 - Pagina finale: 70

This study investigates the pivotal role of multimodal communication in contemporary, multilingual animated films that focus on non-dominant cultures. The research empirically and diachronically analyses a corpus of thirty-seven American multilingual animated films set in non-mainstream countries, released between 1990 and 2024. Its primary aims are to demonstrate how the ethnic characters’ mother tongues (verbal code) are pragmatically reinforced by interwoven semiotic codes – visual, spatial, gestural, verbal-visual, and musical – which act as cultural markers. Also, this paper aims to verify if and how multimodal pragmatic strategies have evolved over this three-decade period. Preliminary findings suggest that modern multicultural animated films operate as complex multimodal pragmatic systems, constructing culturally resonant narratives that successfully bridge linguacultural divides and foster cross-cultural identities.




SICI: 1824-3967(2026)1<49:«AM&BM>2.0.ZU;2-T
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