Series: Routledge Studies in Multimodality

As a founder and leading figure in multimodality and social semiotics, Theo van Leeuwen 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 research career, Advancing Multimodal and Critical Discourse Studies brings together a group of leading and emerging scholars in these fields...

The Discourse of Physics 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 (SFL) approach to scientific discourse, the book uses an SFL framework, here extended to encompass the more recently developed...

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 features contributions from both established...

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 spatial semiotics. He proposes that people’s movement options have the potential to transform the meaning of...