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.
The Structure of Multimodal Documents: An Empirical Approach
1st Edition
By Tuomo Hiippala
February 06, 2018
This book develops a new framework for describing the structure of multimodal documents: how language, image, layout and other modes of communication work together to convey meaning. Building on recent research in multimodal analysis, functional linguistics and information design, the book examines...
Multimodal Analysis in Academic Settings: From Research to Teaching
1st Edition
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By Belinda Crawford Camiciottoli, Inmaculada Fortanet-Gómez
February 05, 2018
This volume presents innovative research on the multimodal dimension of discourse specific to academic settings, with a particular focus on the interaction between the verbal and non-verbal in constructing meaning. Contributions by experienced and emerging researchers provide in-depth analyses in ...
Multimodality and Social Semiosis: Communication, Meaning-Making, and Learning in the Work of Gunther Kress
1st Edition
Edited
By Margit Böck, Norbert Pachler
June 16, 2017
Gunther Kress, one of the founders of social semiotics and multimodality, has made lasting contributions to these fields through his work in semiotics and meaning-making; power and identity; agency, design, production; and pedagogy and learning; in varied sites of transformation. This book brings ...
Film Discourse Interpretation: Towards a New Paradigm for Multimodal Film Analysis
1st Edition
By Janina Wildfeuer
November 03, 2016
This book contributes to the analysis of film from a multimodal and textual perspective by extending formal semantics into the realm of multimodal discourse analysis. It accounts for both the inferential as well as intersemiotic meaning making processes in filmic discourse and therefore addresses ...
Critical Multimodal Studies of Popular Discourse
1st Edition
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By Emilia Djonov, Sumin Zhao
July 27, 2016
Studies of multimodality have significantly advanced our understanding of the potential of different semiotic resources—verbal, visual, aural, and kinetic—to make meaning and allow people to achieve various social purposes such as persuading, entertaining, and explaining. Yet little is known about ...
Spoken and Written Discourse in Online Interactions: A Multimodal Approach
1st Edition
By Maria Grazia Sindoni
July 06, 2015
Common patterns of interactions are altered in the digital world and new patterns of communication have emerged, challenging previous notions of what communication actually is in the contemporary age. Online configurations of interaction, such as video chats, blogging, and social networking ...
Multimodality, Cognition, and Experimental Literature
1st Edition
By Alison Gibbons
July 03, 2014
Since the turn of the millennium, there has seen an increase in the inclusion of typography, graphics and illustration in fiction. This book engages with visual and multimodal devices in twenty-first century literature, exploring canonical authors like Mark Z. Danielewski and Jonathan Safran Foer ...
Multimodal Studies: Exploring Issues and Domains
1st Edition
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By Kay O'Halloran, Bradley Smith
April 22, 2014
The phenomenon of multimodality has, as Jewitt observes, generated interest "across many disciplines...against the backdrop of considerable social change." Contemporary societies are grappling with the social implications of the rapid increase in sophistication and range of multimodal practices, ...
Multimodal Film Analysis: How Films Mean
1st Edition
By John Bateman, Karl-Heinrich Schmidt
April 09, 2014
This book presents a new basis for the empirical analysis of film. Starting from an established body of work in film theory, the authors show how a close incorporation of the current state of the art in multimodal theory—including accounts of the syntagmatic and paradigmatic axes of organisation, ...
New Perspectives on Narrative and Multimodality
1st Edition
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By Ruth Page
April 20, 2012
The contributors in this collection question what kinds of relationships hold between narrative studies and the recently established field of multimodality, evaluate how we might develop an analytical vocabulary which recognizes that stories do not consist of words alone, and demonstrate the ...