1st Edition

The Structure of Multimodal Documents An Empirical Approach

By Tuomo Hiippala Copyright 2016
262 Pages
by Routledge

250 Pages
by Routledge

250 Pages
by Routledge

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 the textual, visual, and spatial aspects of page-based multimodal documents and employs an... Read more

1. Introduction  2. Understanding page-based media  3. An empirical approach to multimodality  4. Genre: perspectives and patterns  5. Working with multimodal corpora  6. The medium and its characteristics  7. The content and its structure  8. The page and its interpretation  9. Multimodal artefacts in digital media  10. Conclusions and outlook

Biography

Tuomo Hiippala is a post-doctoral researcher at the Centre for Applied Language Studies at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. He holds a PhD in English philology from the University of Helsinki. He has published internationally in a number of journals and collections, such as Journal of Pragmatics and Literary and Linguistic Computing.