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.
Multimodal Practices in Higher Education: Analyzing and Teaching Diverse Genres
1st Edition
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By Matt Kessler, J. Elliott Casal, Francesca Marino
June 24, 2026
Featuring perspectives from established and emerging scholars, this collection examines the intersection of multimodality and genre in higher education. Given the growing prevalence of multimodal genres, this book presents a range of studies to support researchers and educators in analyzing and ...
Approaching Digital Interfaces, Social Media and Multimodality from the French Context
1st Edition
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By Fiona Rossette-Crake
June 23, 2026
This collection advances research on multimodality in digital communication with a focus on social media in the French context. The volume brings together perspectives from scholars across disciplines toward bridging social semiotics, as informed by Systemic Functional Linguistics, with French ...
A Multimodal Approach to Picturebooks on Migration and Migrants
1st Edition
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By Carmen Santamaría-García, Eija Ventola
March 12, 2026
This volume is the first edited collection that offers various theoretical and analytical perspectives on migration narratives in children’s picturebooks. The chapters presented have benefitted from theories such as multimodal social semiotics, systemic-functional multimodal discourse analysis, ...
Designing Learning with Digital Play: A Multimodal Perspective
1st Edition
By Fei Victor Lim, Weimin Toh
December 15, 2025
In this book, Lim and Toh explore digital play and children’s instinctive way of exploring the world to bring together research on digital play and learning, and unite game-based learning with multimodality and social semiotics. Digital play opens up immersive and interactive worlds where children ...
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 twenty-first-century American fiction towards elucidating the archival turn in contemporary literature more broadly. Ivansson turns her focus on multimodal archival ...
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 11, 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 06, 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 30, 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 14, 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 ...