This document discusses evaluating multimodal texts and conveying ideas through various forms of presentation. It covers linguistic landscapes, geosemiotics, different types of signs, and online landscapes. The key points are: - Linguistic landscapes refer to the visibility and salience of languages in public/commercial signs in a given area. Geosemiotics studies the social meaning of placing signs in the world. - There are 4 types of signs: regulatory (indicate authority), infrastructural (label things), commercial (advertise products), and transgressive (violate conventions). - Online landscapes include platforms like YouTube and Twitter, where users can curate personalized linguistic spaces. Memes are contagious

1. Evaluating messages
and/or
images

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Learning Outcomes
1. Evaluate multimodal texts critically to enhance receptive
(listening, reading, viewing) skills
2. Convey ideas through oral, audio-visual, and/or web-
based presentations for different target audiences in
local and global setting using appropriate registers
3. Adopt awareness of audience and context in presenting
ideas

3. Lesson 4 outline:
A. Linguistic Landscapes
B. Geosemiotics
C. Kinds of Signs
D. Online Landscapes
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4. a.
linguistic
landscapes
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5. What is a linguistic landscape?
- is the "visibility and salience of languages on public and
commercial signs in a given territory or region" (Landry
and Bourhis 1997:23)
- is a thing that one can see that do not necessarily need
words to express a though
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6. Examples:
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billboards signages

7. Examples:
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street names traffic regulations

8. Examples:
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graffiti memes
tweets

9. Official signs are produced with a top down discourse.
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10. Signs produced by an individual or a group but not officially
recognized has bottom up discourse
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11. b.
geomiotics
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12. What is geosemiotics?
Geosemiotics is the study of the social meaning of the
material placement of signs in the world. By signs, we mean
to include any semiotic system including language and
discourse (Scollon & Scollon, 2003; in Mooney & Evans,
2015).
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15. c.
kinds of signs
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16. 4 kinds of signs
1. Regulatory
- if it indicates authority and is official or legal prohibitions
Examples:
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17. 2. Infrastructural
- if it labels things or directs for the maintenance of a building
or any infrastructure
Examples:
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18. 3. Commercial
- advertises of promotes a product, an event, or a service in
commerce
Examples:
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19. 4. Transgressive
- if it violates (intentionally or accidentally)the conventional
semiotics or is in wrong place
Examples:
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20. What is a graffiti?
Graffiti is an unsanctioned urban text (Carrington, 2009; in
Mooney & Evans, 2015). It conveys power and control to the
person or group behind the production of graffiti.
It is a way for disempowered people to make a visible
mark, to disrupt the landscape that is increasingly
occupied by the increasingly powerful.
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21. d.
online landscapes
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22. netizen
✘ These are people who go online. The term netizen is an abstraction
of the words internet and citizen.
✘ Netizens are metaphorically considered as the citizens of the virtual
world.
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23. Examples of online landscapes
A. YouTube
- is an American video-sharing platform headquartered in San
Bruno, California, USA.
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24. B. Twitter
- is an American microblogging and social networking service
on which users post and interact with messages known as TWEETS.
- provides opportunities and resources for making choices in
how we create a personalized linguistic and semiotic landscape (Gillen
& Merchant, 2013; in Mooney & Evans, 2015).
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25. C. Memes
- is a term given to any posts, language or photo that has an
uptake to a social, moral, or political idea that most of the time seems
funny.
- are contagious patterns of cultural information that get
passed from mind to mind and directly generate and shape the
mindsets and significant forms of behavior and actions of a social
group. Memes include such things as popular tunes, catchphrases,
clothing fashions, architectural styles, ways of doing things, icons,
jingles, and the like (Knobel & Lankshear, 2007; in Mooney & Evans,
2015).
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28. as smc student,
How will the evaluation of messages and/or
images be applied to:
1. SMC core values (FAITH, SERVICE, EXCELLENCE)
2. Family, friends, and to the society;
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quiz

30. Evaluating messages
and/or
images