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Routledge Studies in Multimodality

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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.

46 Series Titles


Engagement in Medical Research Discourse A Multisemiotic Approach to Dialogic Positioning

Engagement in Medical Research Discourse: A Multisemiotic Approach to Dialogic Positioning

1st Edition

By Daniel Lees Fryer
May 31, 2023

This book integrates insights from dialogic theory and systemic functional linguistics (SFL) to extend our understandings of engagement in medical research articles, going beyond notions of the role of verbal dialogue to encompass mathematical and visual semiotics and consider text not just as ...

Multimodality and Classroom Languaging Dynamics An Ecosocial Semiotic Perspective in Asian Contexts

Multimodality and Classroom Languaging Dynamics: An Ecosocial Semiotic Perspective in Asian Contexts

1st Edition

By Dan Shi
May 31, 2023

This practical analytical guide to classroom languaging dynamics in L2 tertiary classrooms integrates multimodality, sociological theory of education and ecosocial semiotic perspectives. It offers a theoretical and methodological framework for conducting multimodal analysis of meaning-making ...

Designing Learning for Multimodal Literacy Teaching Viewing and Representing

Designing Learning for Multimodal Literacy: Teaching Viewing and Representing

1st Edition

By Fei Victor Lim, Lydia Tan-Chia
November 30, 2022

Designing Learning for Multimodal Literacy addresses the need to design learning for multimodal literacy in a world that is increasingly saturated with print and digital media. In the current age, communication and interactions on social media are seldom made with language alone but are often ...

Naming and Framing Understanding the Power of Words across Disciplines, Domains, and Modalities

Naming and Framing: Understanding the Power of Words across Disciplines, Domains, and Modalities

1st Edition

By Viktor Smith
August 29, 2022

This book offers an innovative, unified theoretical model for better understanding the processes underpinning naming and framing and the power that words exert over human minds. The volume integrates theoretical paradigms and empirical insights from across a broad array of research ...

Kinesemiotics Modelling How Choreographed Movement Means in Space

Kinesemiotics: Modelling How Choreographed Movement Means in Space

1st Edition

By Arianna Maiorani
May 30, 2022

This innovative work introduces the interdisciplinary field of research of kinesemiotics, offering a new adaptable model and means of analysis for understanding forms of movement-based communication, such as dance, that use a codified language shared by a community of users. It begins with a ...

Multimodal Approaches to Media Discourses Reconstructing the Age of Austerity in the United Kingdom

Multimodal Approaches to Media Discourses: Reconstructing the Age of Austerity in the United Kingdom

1st Edition

Edited By Tim Griebel, Stefan Evert, Philipp Heinrich
April 29, 2022

Multimodal Approaches to Media Discourses brings together contributions from an interdisciplinary group of scholars on corpus-assisted analyses of multimodal data on austerity discourses in the United Kingdom, which extend and expand on the understanding of austerity but also of the methodologies ...

The Semiotics of Movement in Space

The Semiotics of Movement in Space

1st Edition

By Robert James McMurtrie
March 31, 2021

The Semiotics of Movement in Space explores how people move through buildings and interact with objects in space. Focusing on visitors to the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney, McMurtrie analyses and interprets movement and space relations to highlight new developments and applications of ...

Designing Learning with Embodied Teaching Perspectives from Multimodality

Designing Learning with Embodied Teaching: Perspectives from Multimodality

1st Edition

By Fei Victor Lim
August 28, 2020

Teaching and learning involve more than just language. The teachers' use of gestures, the classroom spaces they occupy and the movements they make, as well as the tools they use, work together with language as a multimodal ensemble of meanings. Embodied teaching is about applying the ...

Advancing Multimodal and Critical Discourse Studies Interdisciplinary Research Inspired by Theo Van Leeuwen’s Social Semiotics

Advancing Multimodal and Critical Discourse Studies: Interdisciplinary Research Inspired by Theo Van Leeuwen’s Social Semiotics

1st Edition

Edited By Sumin Zhao, Emilia Djonov, Anders Björkvall, Morten Boeriis
July 12, 2019

As a founder and leading figure in multimodality and social semiotics, Theo van Leuween has made significant contributions to a variety of research fields, including discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, communication and media studies, education, and design. In celebration of his illustrious ...

The Discourse of YouTube Multimodal Text in a Global Context

The Discourse of YouTube: Multimodal Text in a Global Context

1st Edition

By Phil Benson
July 12, 2019

The Discourse of YouTube explores the cutting edge of contemporary multimodal discourse through an in-depth analysis of structures, processes and content in YouTube discourse. YouTube is often seen as no more than a place to watch videos, but this book argues that YouTube and YouTube pages can also...

The Materiality of Writing A Trace Making Perspective

The Materiality of Writing: A Trace Making Perspective

1st Edition

Edited By Christian Mosbæk Johannessen, Theo van Leeuwen
July 12, 2019

This book examines the materiality of writing. It adopts a multimodal approach to argue that writing as we know it is only a small part of the myriad gestures we make, practices we engage in, and media we use in the process of trace-making. Taking a broad view of the act of writing, the volume ...

Multimodality in the Built Environment Spatial Discourse Analysis

Multimodality in the Built Environment: Spatial Discourse Analysis

1st Edition

By Louise J. Ravelli, Robert J. McMurtrie
February 12, 2018

This book provides an extended exploration of the multimodal analysis of spatial (three-dimensional) texts of the built environment, culminating in a holistic approach termed Spatial Discourse Analysis (SpDA). Based on existing frameworks of multimodal analysis, this book applies, adapts,...

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