This accessible introduction to multimodality illuminates the potential of multimodal research for understanding the ways in which people communicate. Readers will become familiar with the key concepts and methods in various domains while learning how to engage critically with the notion of multimodality. The book challenges widely held assumptions about language and presents the practical steps involved in setting up a multimodal study, including: formulating research questions collecting research materials assessing and developing methods of transcription considering the ethical dimensions of multimodal research.A self-study guide is also included, designed as an optional stand-alone resource or as the basis for a short course. With a wide range of examples, clear practical support and a glossary of terms, Introducing Multimodality is an ideal reference for undergraduate and postgraduate students in multimodality, semiotics, applied linguistics and media and communication studies. Online materials, including colour images and more links to relevant resources, are available on the companion website at www.routledge.com/cw/jewitt and the Routledge Language and Communication Portal.
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List of illustrationsAbout this bookAcknowledgements Chapter 1: Navigating a diverse fieldChapter 2: Why engage with multimodality?Chapter 3: Systemic Functional LinguisticsChapter 4: Social Semiotics Chapter 5: Conversation AnalysisChapter 6: Five more approaches to multimodalityChapter 7: Designing a multimodal study Glossary Self-study guideReferences Index
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"A comprehensive and insightful overview of up-to-date approaches to multimodality with detailed accounts of both their shared and distinctive theories of meaning and methods of analysis, using an array of representative study examples as illustrations. It is very comprehensible, requiring "no prior knowledge in linguistics or semiotics" on the part of readers and thus serves as a good starting point for novices in multimodality. It is also an excellent reference for established scholars who wish to deepen their insights into the complexities involved in various strands of multimodal research." Enhua Guo (2017): Introducing multimodality, Social Semiotics"An excellent guide to multimodality for learners who want to establish their research into multimodality, for this book presents eight approaches all together and sheds light on the distinctions, critiques and new directions of them … the book offers a panoramic overview of fresh trends and developments in multimodality. Elaboration of those approaches is supported by the exemplification of recently published or still-in-press studies." Rurong Le, Multimodal Commun. 2016; 5(2): 143–144
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ISBN
9780415639262
Publisert
2016-03-31
Utgiver
Vendor
Routledge
Vekt
480 gr
Høyde
246 mm
Bredde
174 mm
Aldersnivå
U, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
232

Om bidragsyterne

Carey Jewitt is Professor of Technology and Learning at University College London, Institute of Education. She has authored/edited a number of books on multimodality, including The Routledge Handbook of Multimodal Analysis (2009/2014), Technology, Literacy and Learning: A Multimodal Approach (2008), Urban English Classrooms: Multimodal Teaching and Learning (2005), with Gunther Kress and colleagues, and The Rhetorics of the Science Classroom: A Multimodal Approach (2001), with Gunther Kress and colleagues.
Jeff Bezemer is Reader in Learning and Communication and Co-Director of the Centre for Multimodal Research at University College London, Institute of Education. He is co-author of Multimodality, Learning and Communication (with Gunther Kress, 2015).
Kay O’Halloran is Associate Professor of Communication Studies at Curtin University, Western Australia. Her publications include Multimodal Analysis Image (2012), Multimodal Studies: Exploring Issues and Domains (2011), Mathematical Discourse: Language, Symbolism and Visual Images (2005) and Multimodal Discourse Analysis (2004).