Never Stop to Advance With The Times:Several Concepts Related to Multimodality and AI

doi:10.3969/j.issn.1674-8921.2025.01.006

Abstract

Abstract:

During the period of January and April 2024, I successively participated in two national conferences, that is, “National Symposiium on Multimodality and Functional Linguistics” held by Shanghai Tongji University, and “Symposium on Military Application of Multimodality during the AI Era”held by National University of Defence Technology. The two symposiums indicated that the research of multimodality has become one of the key research subjects. This paper is aimed at discussing those topics about the concept of multimodality, such as connotation, contemporality, fusion, chief mode,and fragmentality. Finally, I report some of my research topics concerning multimadalty.

Key words: multimodality, AI, fusion, chief mode, fragmentation

CLC Number:

H319

HU Zhuanglin. Never Stop to Advance With The Times:Several Concepts Related to Multimodality and AI[J]. Contemporary Foreign Languages Studies, 2025, 25(1): 53-59.

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