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Advancing Multimodal and Critical Discourse Studies

Interdisciplinary Research Inspired by Theo Van Leeuwen’s Social Semiotics
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This volume honours Theo van Leeuwen's pioneering work in multimodality and social semiotics by gathering research from leading scholars. It explores the categorisation of semiotic resources and their use in various communicative forms, alongside critical analyses of how semiotic forms, norms, and technology interact in discourse. Featuring 11 research papers and an experimental visual essay, the book examines semiotic resources such as touch, sound, image, and texture, and applies these to real-world discourses including community currency, fitness regimes, film scoring, and commodity upcycling, addressing issues like global neoliberalism, terrorism, consumerism, and immigration.
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Advancing Multimodal and Critical Discourse Studies is essential reading for scholars and students in discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, communication and media studies, education, and design. It will also interest researchers keen on social semiotics and the critical investigation of contemporary social issues through multimodal frameworks.

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This volume highlights the contributions of Theo van Leeuwen to the fields of multimodality, social semiotics, and critical discourse analysis, and demonstrates how the key themes in his work have influenced and will continue to shape multimodal research.

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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 to review, explore and advance two central research agendas set out by van Leeuwen: the categorisation of the meaning potential of various semiotic resources and the examination of their uses in different forms of communication, and the critical analysis of the interaction between semiotic forms, norms, and technology in discursive practices.

Through 11 cutting-edge research papers and an experimental visual essay, the book investigates a broad range of semiotic resources including touch, sound, image, texture, and discursive practices such as community currency, fitness regime, film scoring, and commodity upcycling.

The book showcases how social semiotics and multimodality can provide insights into the burning issues of the day, such as global neoliberalism, terrorism, consumerism, and immigration.

Series: Routledge Studies in Multimodality

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780367366391

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 12 July 2019

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Routledge

Illustration: 12 Tables, black and white; 11 Line drawings, black and white; 46 Halftones, black and white; 69 Illustrations, black and white

Contributors:

  • Edited by Emilia Djonov
  • Edited by Sumin Zhao
  • Edited by Anders BjΓΆrkvall
  • Edited by Morten Boeriis

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 440g

Pages: 220

About the Author

Sumin Zhao is a Carlsberg Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Southern Denmark and the book review editor for Discourse and Communication. Her most recent publications apply a social semiotic approach to analyzing selfies and mobile applications. Her edited volume (with Djonov) Critical Multimodal Studies of Popular Discourse is now in paperback. Emilia Djonov is a Lecturer in early childhood at Macquarie University, Australia. Her research inγ€€multimodality, social semiotics,γ€€critical discourse analysis,γ€€and multiliteracies has been published in journals such asγ€€Visual Communication,γ€€Social Semiotics, andγ€€Text & Talk. Sheγ€€has co-edited the volume Critical Multimodal Studies of Popular Discourseγ€€(Routledge, 2014, with Zhao). Andersγ€€BjΓΆrkvall is Professor of Swedish at Γ–rebro University, Sweden. His mainγ€€research interests include multimodality and ethnographies of artefacts andγ€€texts. Recent publications: "Multimodal discourse analysis" inγ€€Analyzingγ€€Text and Discourseγ€€(2017) and "Places and spaces for multimodalγ€€writing in ’one-to-one’ computing" inγ€€Multimodality in Writingγ€€(2015). Morten Boeriis is an Associate Professor at University of Southern Denmark. His most recent publications are on multimodal visual theory and film analysis. His interview book (co-written with Andersen, MaagerΓΈ and TΓΈnnessen) Social Semiotics: Key Figures, New Direction is out on Routledge.

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