1st Edition
Multimodality in the Built Environment Spatial Discourse Analysis
1. Introduction: New Perspectives on the Built Environment 2. Framing Society: Shopping, the textual metafunction, and social hierarchy 3. Structuring Relations: Learning spaces and the interpersonal metafunction 4. Extending Relations: At home in the library 5. Construing Living: Apartments, the experiential metafunction, and the role of the user 6. Individualizing Space: Art galleries, the logical metafunction, and the contribution of users’ movement 7. Conclusion: Holistic analysis
Biography
Louise J. Ravelli is Associate Professor of Media and Communication at the University of New South Wales, Australia.
Robert J. McMurtrie is a PhD from the University of New South Wales, Australia, in Multimodality and Spatiogrammatics.
"The value of Ravelli and McMurtrie’s book lies in the rich array of tools it offers for analysing how buildings use multimodal meaning-making to structure social life and portray its values and preoccupations. It is not only multimodal, showing how architecture uses a wide range of semiotic modes, but also multidisciplinary, connecting the social semiotic approach to interpretations or architecture from other disciplinary fields such as art and architecture theory." --Theo van Leeuwen, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark and University of New South Wales, Australia
