Routledge Studies in Multimodality
About the Book Series
Edited by Kay O'Halloran, Routledge Studies in Multimodality aims to advance knowledge of multimodal resources such as language, visual images, gesture, action, music, sound, 3-D artefacts, architecture and space, as well as the ways these resources integrate to create meaning in multimodal objects and events.
Designing Learning with Digital Play: A Multimodal Perspective
1st Edition
By Fei Victor Lim, Weimin Toh
December 15, 2025
Lim and Toh provide updates on recent research on digital play and learning, and unite game-based learning with multimodal and social semiotic theories. They adopt the position that teachers’ or caregivers’ scaffolding is required when games are used in a pedagogical context such as the classroom....
Contemporary Archival Fiction: A Multimodal Cognitive Stylistic Approach
1st Edition
By Elin Ivansson
September 30, 2025
This book presents a synthesised framework for analysing archival poetics in multimodal literature, examining case studies from 21st-century American fiction toward elucidating the archival turn in contemporary literature more broadly. Ivansson turns her focus on multimodal archival fiction, here ...
Multimodal Affordances in Diplomatic Interpreting: An SF-MDA Approach
1st Edition
By Xinqiao Cen, Derek Irwin
August 29, 2025
This book offers an in-depth exploration of diplomatic interpreting as a complex form of multimodal interaction, drawing on examples from China–U.S. diplomatic interpreting activities to demonstrate the nuances of meaning transfer across modes and contexts. The volume introduces the notion of ...
Future Directions in Intermediality and Multimodality: Dialogues Inspired by the Work of Lars Elleström
1st Edition
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By Signe Kjaer Jensen, Matilda Davidsson
July 10, 2025
This collection brings together leading scholars across disciplines to reflect on the relationship between intermediality and multimodality and future directions for the contemporary mediascape, building on a 2022 Linnaeus University lecture series honouring the legacy of Lars Elleström, following ...
Multimodality Studies in International Contexts: Contemporary Trends and Challenges
1st Edition
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By Liliana Vásquez Rocca, Natasha Artemeva, Chloë Grace Fogarty-Bourget
May 05, 2025
This collection responds to the need for theoretically informed and methodologically grounded empirical research on the global transformations in multimodal human communication and social practices in light of recent widespread change. The volume highlights the need to expand on the established ...
Multimodality, Ideology, and Manipulation: BBC Travel Documentaries and the Illusion of Empire
1st Edition
By Jacopo Castaldi
April 29, 2025
This book examines how sociopolitical and intercultural ideologies surrounding globalisation and neoliberalism are constructed and negotiated in travel documentaries, focusing on the role of the BBC in reproducing neo-imperialistic and neoliberal values. It argues that these documentaries ...
Appraisal, Sentiment and Emotion Analysis in Political Discourse: A Multimodal, Multi-method Approach
1st Edition
By Claudia Roberta Combei, Valeria Reggi
April 13, 2025
This book adopts a multi-method multimodal approach to the study of online political communication, applying it to case studies from the United Kingdom, France, and Italy towards offering a portrait of the rapid ideological shifts in contemporary Western democracies. The volume introduces an ...
Multimodal Mediation Through Picturebooks and Graphic Narratives: Educational and Translational Contexts
1st Edition
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By Sandie Mourão, Karen Bennett
February 27, 2025
This collection critically examines the notion of mediation as it manifests itself at the intersection of multimodal literature, education, and translation studies, bringing together perspectives from established and early career scholars. The volume seeks to synthesize the fields of education and ...
Multimodality and Social Interaction in Online and Offline Shopping
1st Edition
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By Gitte Rasmussen, Theo van Leeuwen
December 18, 2024
This collection brings together social semiotic, ethnographic, and conversation analytic approaches to multimodality in global studies of shopping, drawing on the rich diversity of the latest multimodal methods to critically reflect on shopping as a cornerstone of contemporary social life. The ...
Reading Images for Knowledge Building: Analyzing Infographics in School Science
1st Edition
By J.R. Martin, Len Unsworth
December 18, 2024
This innovative volume provides a new analytic framework for understanding how meaning-making resources are deployed in images designed for knowledge building in school science. The framework enables analyses of science images from the perspectives of both their complexity and recognizability. ...
Relational and Multimodal Higher Education: Digital, Social and Environmental Perspectives
1st Edition
By Nataša Lacković, Alin Olteanu
December 18, 2024
This book proposes a relational turn in higher education by conceptualizing knowledge and pedagogy as relational and multimodal, analyzed through three dimensions of relationality: social, technological, and environmental. The volume draws on interdisciplinary approaches that make a case for ...
Popularizing Science in the Digital Era: A Multimodal Genre Perspective on TED Talk Videos
1st Edition
By Sichen Xia
November 28, 2024
This book offers a comprehensive overview of TED talks as a digital-multimodal video genre, exploring the ways in which myriad rhetorical, structural, digital, and multimodal resources are used to communicate scientific knowledge to lay audiences. Drawing on insights from genre analysis, the ...