There is now a long tradition of academic literature in media studies and criminology that has analysed how we come to think about crime, deviance and punishment. This book for the first time deals specifically with the role of language in this process, showing how critical linguistic analysis can provide further crucial insights into media representations of crime and criminals. Through case studies the book develops a toolkit for the analysis of language and images in examples taken from a range of media. The Language of Crimeand Deviance covers spoken, written and visual media discourses...
There is now a long tradition of academic literature in media studies and criminology that has analysed how we come to think about crime, deviance and...
This book analyses war monuments by developing a multimodal social-semiotic approach to understand how they communicate as three-dimensional objects. The book provides a practical tool-kit approach to how critical multimodal social semiotics should be done through visual, textual and material analysis. It ties this material analysis into the social and political contexts of production. Using examples across the 20th and 21st century the book's chapters offer a way of analysing the way that monument designers have used specific semiotic choices in terms of things like iconography, objects,...
This book analyses war monuments by developing a multimodal social-semiotic approach to understand how they communicate as three-dimensional object...
This major reference collection brings together a range of theoretical, methodological and thematically diverse articles and chapters that map the most important kinds of work and ideas in international audience studies.
This major reference collection brings together a range of theoretical, methodological and thematically diverse articles and chapters that map the mos...
Popular music is far more than just songs we listen to; its meanings are also in album covers, lyrics, subcultures, voices and video soundscapes. 'Analysing Popular Music' looks at the semiotic resources found in the sounds, visuals and words that comprise the 'code book' of popular music.
Popular music is far more than just songs we listen to; its meanings are also in album covers, lyrics, subcultures, voices and video soundscapes. 'Ana...
A critical and up-to-date overview of visual journalism that combines academic theory with the experiences of practitioners working in the field, drawing on a diverse range of media examples, in order to analyse the significance of appearance and branding in the digital age.
A critical and up-to-date overview of visual journalism that combines academic theory with the experiences of practitioners working in the field, d...
This book analyses war monuments by developing a multimodal social-semiotic approach to understand how they communicate as three-dimensional objects. The book provides a practical tool-kit approach to how critical multimodal social semiotics should be done through visual, textual and material analysis. It ties this material analysis into the social and political contexts of production. Using examples across the 20th and 21st century the book's chapters offer a way of analysing the way that monument designers have used specific semiotic choices in terms of things like iconography, objects,...
This book analyses war monuments by developing a multimodal social-semiotic approach to understand how they communicate as three-dimensional object...
