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Table 4 Illustrations of the coding examples provided in the article, related to composition, denotation and connotation, applied in a grid template

From: Analysing videos in educational research: an “Inquiry Graphics” approach for multimodal, Peircean semiotic coding of video data

Video scene (optional: video image)

Representamen (Representation focus)

Interpretant Sense vehicle

Action focus

Speech

Research Object

Denotation (CD)

Connotation (CC)

Composition

1) people

+ Man

+ screen

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Many

+ 1

+ 1

1) a large number of mostly younger looking adults of mixed gender appear to be looking at the screen, which is displaying bullet points and text (in English language), in front of a male person

1) a large number of students are following the lecture content displayed in the form of sequential textual data in English language, the lecture being led by a male lecturer

  

Interpretations depends on research questions and focus.