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Sonja Starc Introduction
University of Primorska, Slovenia
sonja.starc@pef.upr.si
©2026SonjaStarc
Meaning-Making, Multiliteracies
and Multimodality
Abstracts of the International
Symposium
Koper, 19–20 March 2026
In times of profound social change and shifts in how humans perceive and re-
spond to the world, a sense of uncertainty is inevitable. Such a feeling of life often
brings us closer to Šalamun’s (2003, 38) question: ‘but what now and what will be
the consequences.’
Do we know?
Of course, the symposium cannot offer precise answers, but it can trigger discus-
sions about them. The purpose of the Symposium is to rethink and open wider
the discussion about how modern person responds to the possibilities offered by
modern technology in choosing semiotic systems for making meaning in com-
munication. How are multimodal text understood in society/school? How does
artificial intelligence create meaning and in what position does it place humans?
How (should) we understand the meaning of texts generated by the AI? What
kind of literacies or competences make part of ‘multiliteracy’ (The New London
Group, 1996), that the contemporary society needs?
We would also like to discuss this topic from the perspective of other disciplines
(neuroscience, computer science and artificial intelligence, music, dance, film di-
recting, fine arts), not only linguistics and multimodality, since they are all in-
volved in the creation of meanings and various dynamic semantic relationships
in a modern society permeated by new technologies.
The New London Group. (1996). A pedagogy of multiliteracies. Harvard Educa-
tional Review, 60(1), 66–92.
Šalamun, T. (2003). Poker (J.Beckman andT.Šalamun,Trans.).UglyDuckling
Presse.
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