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.
Multimodality and Aesthetics
1st Edition
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By Elise Seip Tønnessen, Frida Forsgren
June 30, 2020
This volume explores the relationship between aesthetics and traditional multimodal communication to show how all semiotic resources, not just those situated within fine arts, have an aesthetic function. Bringing together contributions from an interdisciplinary group of researchers, the book ...
Multimodality in Practice: Investigating Theory-in-Practice-through-Methodology
1st Edition
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By Sigrid Norris
June 30, 2020
In this wide-ranging collection, leading scholars, researchers, and emergent researchers from around the world come together and present examples of multimodal discourse analysis in practice. The book illustrates new theoretical, methodological and empirical research into new ...
Advancing Multimodal and Critical Discourse Studies: Interdisciplinary Research Inspired by Theo Van Leeuwen’s Social Semiotics
1st Edition
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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 ...
Mapping Multimodal Performance Studies
1st Edition
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By Maria Grazia Sindoni, Janina Wildfeuer, Kay O'Halloran
July 12, 2019
This book is a first attempt to map the broad context of performance studies from a multimodal perspective. It collects original research on traditional performing arts (theatre, dance, opera), live (durational performance) and mediated/recorded performances (films, television shows), as well as ...
The Discourse of Physics: Building Knowledge through Language, Mathematics and Image
1st Edition
By Y. J. Doran
July 12, 2019
This book provides a detailed model of both the discourse and knowledge of physics and offers insights toward developing pedagogy that improves how physics is taught and learned. Building on a rich history of applying a Systemic Functional Linguistics approach to scientific discourse, the book uses...
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
1st Edition
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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
1st Edition
By Louise J. Ravelli, Robert James 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,...
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
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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 ...