Advancing Multimodal and Critical Discourse Studies: Interdisciplinary Research Inspired by Theo Van Leeuwen's Social Semiotics

ISBN-13: 9781138697638 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 220 str.

Sumin Zhao; Emilia Djonov; Anders Bjorkvall

Opis

This innovative volume highlights the dynamic and groundbreaking 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. Beginning with a preface and introduction that detail the foundations of his work through an intellectual biography, the book, featuring fifteen contributions from an international group of leading scholars in the field, builds on this overview of his work to look more closely at the myriad ways in which semiotic resources, such as touch, sound, and typography, lie at the heart of modern communication today, but also at how technology, globalization, social media, and changing social and cultural norms are influencing new and developing semiotic and discursive practices. By incorporating viewpoints from a wide variety of fields and in examining van Leeuwen's work from both past and future perspectives, this interdisciplinary volume provides a showcase in which to explore the extent of his impact in the field and how social semiotic and multimodal research can provide insights into the key social issues of modern life, serving as an essential resource for students and scholars in multimodality, critical discourse analysis, social semiotics, visual communication, and media studies.

O autorze

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 in　multimodality, social semiotics,　critical discourse analysis,　and multiliteracies has been published in journals such as　Visual Communication,　Social Semiotics, and　Text & Talk. She　has co-edited the volume Critical Multimodal Studies of Popular Discourse　(Routledge, 2014, with Zhao). Anders　Björkvall is Professor of Swedish at Örebro University, Sweden. His main　research interests include multimodality and ethnographies of artefacts and　texts. Recent publications: "Multimodal discourse analysis" in　Analyzing　Text and Discourse　(2017) and "Places and spaces for multimodal　writing in ’one-to-one’ computing" in　Multimodality in Writing　(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, Maagerø and Tønnessen) Social Semiotics: Key Figures, New Direction is out on Routledge.