Exploring Multimodal Expression of Taíno Worldviews and Perspectives through a Multiliteracies Transpositional Grammar

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Abstract

Employing Brayboy et al.'s (2012) Critical Indigenous Research Methodologies (CIRM) framework, this paper focuses on multimodal strategies used in oral texts by Taíno community members to emphasize Indigenous worldviews and perspectives. It demonstrates how transpositional grammars can be employed to analyze movement of meaning in non-digital multimodal texts expressing culturally diverse views. Furthermore, it illustrates how a CIRM framework can assist multimodality research in addressing “legacies of colonialism” (Campano, et al., 2020, p. 138) through the incorporation of open-ended interviews to member check the researcher’s text analyses. A transpositional grammar focusing on Taíno multimodal strategy use could be utilized to sustain Caribbean-descent students’ cultural worldviews/perspectives and to foster all students’ “cultural flexibility” (Paris & Alim, 2014, p. 87).

Author

• Martha Rosas, Lehman College - CUNY