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.
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 ...
Multilingualism from Manuscript to 3D: Intersections of Modalities from Medieval to Modern Times
1st Edition
Edited
By Matylda Włodarczyk, Jukka Tyrkkö, Elżbieta Adamczyk
October 07, 2024
This collection explores the links between multimodality and multilingualism, charting the interplay between languages, channels and forms of communication in multilingual written texts from historical manuscripts through to the new media of today and the non-verbal associations they evoke. The ...
Multimodal Chinese Discourse: Understanding Communication and Society in Contemporary China
1st Edition
By Dezheng (William) Feng
October 07, 2024
This book helps readers to understand communication and society in contemporary China through systematic analysis of multimodal discourse at the national, institutional, and individual levels. China has undergone profound changes during the past decade or so. Politically, the Chinese government has...
Multimodal Experiences Across Cultures, Spaces and Identities
1st Edition
By Ayelet Kohn, Rachel Weissbrod
October 07, 2024
This book explores the interplay between various semiotic modes in multimodal texts and the ways in which they are employed to express cultural translation, seeking to expand prevailing views of translation and adaptation in light of everchanging social realities. Drawing on work from multimodal ...
Organizational Semiotics: Multimodal Perspectives on Organization Studies
1st Edition
Edited
By Louise Ravelli, Theo van Leeuwen, Markus A. Höllerer, Dennis Jancsary
October 07, 2024
This edited volume brings together two largely separate fields – organization studies and multimodal social semiotics – to develop an integrated research agenda for the novel interdisciplinary field of ‘organizational semiotics’. Organizations, whether for profit, non-profit, or governmental, ...
A Multimodal Stylistic Approach to Screen Adaptations of the Work of Alice Munro
1st Edition
By Sabrina Francesconi
August 26, 2024
This volume brings together perspectives from multimodal stylistics and adaptation studies for a unified theoretical analysis of adaptations of the work of Alice Munro, demonstrating the affordances of the approach in furthering interdisciplinary research at the intersection of these fields The ...
Discourses, Modes, Media and Meaning in an Era of Pandemic: A Multimodal Discourse Analysis Approach
1st Edition
Edited
By Sabine Tan, Marissa K. L. E
August 26, 2024
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected all aspects of our everyday lives – from the political to the economic to the social. Using a multimodal discourse analysis approach, this dynamic collection examines various discourses, modes and media in circulation during the early stages of the pandemic, and ...
A Multimodal and Ethnographic Approach to Textbook Discourse
1st Edition
By Germán Canale
May 27, 2024
This book offers a new framework for analysing textbook discourse, bridging the gap between contemporary ethnographic approaches and multimodality for a contextually sensitive approach which considers the multiplicity of multimodal resources involved in the production and use of textbooks. The ...
Genre Networks
1st Edition
By Carmen Pérez-Llantada, María-José Luzón
May 27, 2024
This innovative book employs genre as a fruitful lens for exploring the complexity of science communication online and the new genre assemblages formed at the interface of multiple genres in digital environments. Pérez-Llantada and Luzón argue for a conceptualization of Science 2.0 that views ...
Multimodality in English Language Learning
1st Edition
Edited
By Sophia Diamantopoulou, Sigrid Ørevik
January 29, 2024
This edited volume provides research-based knowledge on the use, production and assessment of multimodal texts in the teaching and learning of English as an Additional Language (EAL). The book reflects growing interest in research on EAL, with increasing numbers of learners of English worldwide ...