Multimodality Products

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…

Paperback – 2019-08-30
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Routledge Studies in Multimodality

By Riitta Oittinen, Anne Ketola, Melissa Garavini

Translating Picturebooks examines the role of illustration in the translation process of picturebooks and how the word-image interplay inherent in the medium can have an impact both on translation practice and the reading process itself. The book draws on a wide range of picturebooks published and…

Paperback – 2019-07-16
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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…

Paperback – 2019-07-12
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Routledge Studies in Multimodality

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…

Paperback – 2019-07-12
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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…

Paperback – 2019-07-12
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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…

Paperback – 2019-07-12
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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…

Paperback – 2019-07-12
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Edited by Roberto A. Valdeon

Chinese Translation Studies in the 21st Century, which presents a selection of some of the best articles published in the journal Perspectives in a five-year period (2012-2017), highlights the vitality of Translation Studies as a profession and as a field of enquiry in China. As the country has…

Paperback – 2019-03-21
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By Richard Andrews

There is to date no comprehensive account of the rhythms of free verse. The main purpose of A Prosody of Free Verse: explorations in rhythm is to fill that gap and begin to provide a systematic approach to describing and analyzing free verse rhythms. Most studies have declared the attempt to write…

Paperback – 2018-08-23
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Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Stylistics

Edited by Nikolas Coupland

First published in 1988, this book focuses on diversity and discourse, and collects contemporaneous research across a wide range of topics including: description, polemic, narrative analysis, DJ talk, philosophical history, conversation, children’s books and nuclear deterrence. The essays…

Paperback – 2018-05-17
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RLE: Discourse Analysis

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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Routledge Studies in Multimodality