ABSTRACT

In this wide-ranging collection, leading scholars, researchers, and emergent researchers from around the world come together and present examples of multimodal discourse analysis in practice. The book illustrates new theoretical, methodological and empirical research into new technologies such as the internet, software, CD-ROM, video, and older technologies such as film, newspapers, brands or billboards. Each chapter demonstrates how aspects of multimodal theory and method can be used to conduct research into these and other multimodal texts. Taken together, the book advances the field of multimodal discourse analysis and offers a range of current studies that address some of the most important questions facing researchers and students when investigating new or old technologies multimodally in linguistics, education, communication studies, sociology, anthropology and other fields.

part I|111 pages

Part I

chapter 1|4 pages

Introduction to Part I

Primary Focus—Social Actors and Their Actions

chapter 2|13 pages

Teaching Touch/Response-Feel

A First Step to an Analysis of touch from an (Inter)Active Perspective

chapter 5|16 pages

Scientific Visualizations as Discourse Nexus

Transmission of Content or Context for Making Meaning?

chapter 6|16 pages

Sacred Time

Temporal Rhythms in Aipan Practice

part II|114 pages

Part II

chapter 9|4 pages

Introduction to Part II

Primary Focus—Cultural Tools

chapter 10|19 pages

Normativity and Software

A Multimodal Social Semiotic Approach

chapter 11|15 pages

Reception as Social Action

The Case of Marketing

chapter 13|16 pages

Storm Over the Starship

A Geosemiotic Analysis of Brand Co-ownership

chapter 14|16 pages

Multimodal Texts as Mediated Actions

Voice, Synchronization and Layered Simultaneity in Images of Disability

chapter 16|5 pages

Multimodality in Practice

Investigating Theory-in-Practice-Through-Methodology