Lingua Technica: Journal of Digital Literary Studies
Vol. 1 No. 1 (2025): Foundations of digital literary studies: Concepts, textuality, and pedagogical

Multimodal poetics in digital literature: A corpus-based analysis of visual-verbal design, screen-based textuality, and reader interaction

Ridhatullah Assyabani (Sekolah Tinggi Ilmu Qur’an (STIQ) Amuntai)



Article Info

Publish Date
31 Jan 2025

Abstract

Digital literature has transformed literary experience by shifting reading from a page-bound encounter with verbal text into a screen-based engagement with visual design, textual movement, interface structure, and reader participation. This study aims to examine how selected digital-born literary works construct meaning through the integrated operation of verbal, visual, and interactive forms. Using a qualitative interpretive design, the study analyses works drawn from recognized electronic literature archives through Multimodal Discourse Analysis, Digital Poetics Analysis, and Interface and Interaction Analysis. The findings show that visual-verbal configuration functions as a core poetic mechanism, in which typography, layout, image, colour, spatial arrangement, and screen composition actively reshape verbal meaning. The study also finds that fragmentation, movement, and screen-based textuality expand poetic form beyond stable printed structures by making language dynamic, procedural, and temporally organized. Reader navigation further emerges as a crucial mode of meaning-making, as clicking, scrolling, selecting, waiting, observing, and activating textual elements transform reading into a performative negotiation between agency and constraint. The novelty of this study lies in its corpus-based multimodal poetics framework, which integrates visual-verbal design, digital textual dynamics, and interactive readerly performance into a single analytical model for examining digital-born literature.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

lingtech

Publisher

Subject

Arts Humanities Computer Science & IT Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

This journal covers a wide range of fields, including digital literature, e-poetry, and the relationship between language, literature, and technology in diverse ...