Routledge Studies in Multimodality

By Ahmed Abdel-Raheem

This book seeks to extend research on framing beyond linguistic and cognitive perspectives by examining framing in visual and multimodal texts and their impact on moral cognition and attitudes. Drawing on perspectives from frame semantics, blending theory, relevance theory, and pragmatics, the…

Hardback – 2018-11-05
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By Nina Nørgaard

This book advocates for a new analytical framework that extends our understanding of multimodal meaning-making in the novel. Integrating theoretical traditions from stylistics and the influential social semiotic approach to multimodal communication developed by Kress and van Leeuwen, Nørgaard…

Hardback – 2018-10-12
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By Weimin Toh

This volume puts forth an original theoretical framework, the ludonarrative model, for studying video games which foregrounds the empirical study of the player experience. The book provides a comprehensive introduction to and description of the model, which draws on theoretical frameworks from…

Hardback – 2018-10-11
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By Jason Hawreliak

This book merges recent trends in game studies and multimodal studies to explore the relationship between the interaction between videogames’ different modes and the ways in which they inform meaning for both players and designers. The volume begins by laying the foundation for integrating the two…

Hardback – 2018-10-10
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Edited by Elise Seip Tønnessen, Frida Forsgren

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…

Hardback – 2018-09-18
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Edited by Helen de Silva Joyce, Susan Feez

This volume takes a broad view of multimodality as it applies to a wide range of subject areas, curriculum design, and classroom processes to examine the ways in which multiple modes combine in contemporary classrooms and its subsequent impact on student learning. Grounded in a systemic functional…

Hardback – 2018-08-21
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Routledge Studies in Multimodality

By Michael O'Toole

This collection brings together eighteen of the author’s original papers, previously published in a variety of academic journals and edited collections over the last three decades, on the process of interpretation in literature and the visual arts in one comprehensive volume. The volume highlights…

Hardback – 2018-03-29
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By Louise J. Ravelli, Robert J. McMurtrie

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,…

Paperback – 2018-02-12
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Routledge Studies in Multimodality

By Tuomo Hiippala

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…

Paperback – 2018-02-06
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Edited by Belinda Crawford Camiciottoli, Inmaculada Fortanet-Gómez

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…

Paperback – 2018-02-05
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Edited by J. C. Lee, Santosh Khadka

This volume presents a comprehensive overview of multimodal approaches to curriculum and programmatic implementation across a diverse range of teaching environments and across geographic and cultural boundaries. Featuring contributions from scholars within and across both disciplines, the book…

Hardback – 2018-01-31
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Edited by Sumin Zhao, Emilia Djonov, Anders Björkvall, Morten Boeriis

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…

Hardback – 2017-09-28
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Routledge Studies in Multimodality

Edited by Christian Mosbæk Johannessen, Theo van Leeuwen

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…

Hardback – 2017-09-22
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Routledge Studies in Multimodality

By Y. J. Doran

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…

Hardback – 2017-09-15
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Edited by Margit Böck, Norbert Pachler

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…

Paperback – 2017-06-16
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By Robert James McMurtrie

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…

Hardback – 2016-12-27
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Edited by Maria Grazia Sindoni, Janina Wildfeuer, Kay O'Halloran

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…

Hardback – 2016-12-22
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By Phil Benson

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…

Hardback – 2016-11-09
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By Janina Wildfeuer

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…

Paperback – 2016-11-03
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Edited by Emilia Djonov, Sumin Zhao

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…

Paperback – 2016-07-27
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By Maria Grazia Sindoni

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…

Paperback – 2015-07-06
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Routledge Studies in Multimodality

By Alison Gibbons

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…

Paperback – 2014-07-03
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Routledge Studies in Multimodality

Edited by Arianna Maiorani, Christine Christie

This volume develops a new multimodal semiotic approach to the study of communication, examining how multimodal discourse is construed transmedially and interculturally and how new technologies and cultural stances inform communicative contexts across the world. It contributes to current…

Hardback – 2014-05-01
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Edited by Kay O'Halloran, Bradley A. Smith

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,…

Paperback – 2014-04-22
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Routledge Studies in Multimodality

By John Bateman, Karl-Heinrich Schmidt

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,…

Paperback – 2014-04-09
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Edited by Arlene Archer, Denise Newfield

This book brings together social semiotics, cultural studies, multiliteracies, and other approaches in order to theorize very different learning environments, giving visibility to the modal effect in a range of disciplines. It highlights the ideological nature of discursive practices, examines…

Hardback – 2014-03-17
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Edited by Ruth Page

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…

Paperback – 2012-04-20
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Routledge Studies in Multimodality

Edited by Sigrid Norris

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…

Hardback – 2011-11-09
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Routledge Studies in Multimodality