Blog Post 7

I believe the relationship between multimodality and genre is intertwined with one relying on another. Genre is pretty well known as a category or an organizer. There are different genres of writing, music, movies, you name it. These genres help us decipher what we are about to watch, or maybe help us find more music we like to listen to based on some of our favorite songs being in that genre. Multimodality uses modes to create a message that falls into these genres. Without the use of text, speech, time and space, which are all modes, there would not be a message to categorize into a genre. So, I think the relationship between the two is a direct one that feeds off of each other.