1st Edition
Multimodality and Aesthetics
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 meditates on the role of aesthetics in a broader range of semiotic resources, including urban spaces, blogs, digital scrapbooks, children’s literature, music, and online learning environments. The result is a comprehensive collection of new perspectives on how communication and aesthetics enrich and complement one another when meaning is made with semiotic resources, making this key reading for students and scholars in multimodality, fine arts, education studies, and visual culture.
1. Introduction
Elise Seip Tønnessen and Frida Forsgren
Part I.
2. Multimodality, style and the aesthetic: the case of the digital werewolf
Andrew Burn and Gunther Kress
3. A phenomenological approach to multimodality and aesthetic experiences
Thomas Illum Hansen
Part III.
4. Memoria of a national trauma
Eva Maagerø and Aslaug Veum
5. Reconstruction of Chilean memories in the national stadium of Chile: a multimodal critical discourse analysis of a centre of detention and torture
Patricia Baeza Duffy
6. Shaping the social through the Aesthetics of public places: the renovation of Leeds Kirkgate Market
Elisabetta Adami
Part III.
7. A multimodal analysis of aesthetics in Brazilian school textbooks
Clarice Lage Gualberto and Sônia Maria de Oliveira Pimenta
8. Aesthetic experience through students’ production of digital books
Hege Emma Rimmereide, Jon Hoem and Sarah Hoem Iversen
9. Digital Argumentation Aesthetics
Jon Hoem and Ture Schwebs
10. Visualizing norms of science in early school years: visual aesthetics and content formation in students’ multimodal compositions
Elin Westlund
11. The aesthetic potential of vocal sound in online learning situations
Johnny Wingstedt
Part IV.
12. The templatized aesthetics of Wix: a social semiotic technology approach to web design
Gunhild Kvåle & Søren Vigild Poulsen
13. Digital Scrapbooks, everyday aesthetics and the curatorial self: social photography in female visual blogging
Sumin Zhao and Michele Zappavigna
14. Multimodality, moving images and aesthetics
Øystein Gilje
15. Filtered aesthetics: a study of Instagram’s photo filters from the perspective of semiotic technology
Søren Vigild Poulsen
Part V.
16. Sensory experience and a subjective reading position
in The Lost Thing
Kristin Ørjasæter
17. Tears in heaven: Eric Clapton coping with loss through music and words
Bjarne Markussen
18. Multimodal aesthetics and gender in Beck's Song Reader
Kate Maxwell and Lilli Mittner
19. Intermodal contrast in film: looking for the aesthetics of intermodal relations
Martin Siefkes
Biography
Elise Seip Tønnessen is Professor in the Department of Nordic and Media Studies at the University of Agder, Norway.
Frida Forsgren is Associate Professor in the Department of Foreign Languages and Translation Studies at the University of Agder, Norway.
