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Advancing Multimodal and Critical Discourse Studies

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Advancing Multimodal and Critical Discourse Studies book

Interdisciplinary Research Inspired by Theo Van Leeuwen’s Social Semiotics

Advancing Multimodal and Critical Discourse Studies

DOI link for Advancing Multimodal and Critical Discourse Studies

Advancing Multimodal and Critical Discourse Studies book

Interdisciplinary Research Inspired by Theo Van Leeuwen’s Social Semiotics
Edited BySumin Zhao, Emilia Djonov, Anders Björkvall, Morten Boeriis
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2017
eBook Published 8 September 2017
Pub. location New York
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315521015
Pages 240 pages
eBook ISBN 9781315521015
SubjectsArts, Humanities, Language & Literature
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Zhao, S. (Ed.), Djonov, E. (Ed.), Björkvall, A. (Ed.), Boeriis, M. (Ed.). (2018). Advancing Multimodal and Critical Discourse Studies. New York: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315521015

As a founder and leading figure in multimodality and social semiotics, Theo van Leuween 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, this volume 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.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter 1|17 pages

Social Semiotics

A Theorist and a Theory in Retrospect and Prospect
WithEmilia Djonov, Sumin Zhao

chapter 2|11 pages

Changing Academic Common Sense

A Personal Recollection of Collaborative Work
WithGunther Kress

chapter 3|19 pages

“Strangers in Europe”

A Discourse-Historical Approach to the Legitimation of Immigration Control 2015/16
WithRuth Wodak

chapter 4|16 pages

The Limits of Semiotics—Epistemology and the Concept of ‘Race’

WithPhilip Bell

chapter 5|12 pages

Can a Sign Reveal Its Meaning?

On the Question of Interpretation and Epistemic Contexts
WithStaffan Selander

chapter 6|15 pages

Towards a Multimodal Social Semiotic Agenda for Touch

WithCarey Jewitt

chapter 7|20 pages

Reading That Which Should Not Be Signified

Community Currency in the UK
WithAnnabelle Mooney

chapter 8|16 pages

A Sound Semiotic Investigation of How Subjective Experiences Are Signified in Ex Machina (2014)

WithGilbert Gabriel

chapter 9|15 pages

Unravelling the Myth of Multiple Endings and the Narrative Labyrinth in Mr. Nobody (2010)

WithChiao-I Tseng

chapter 10|17 pages

New Codifications, New Practices

The Multimodal Communication of CrossFit
WithPer Ledin, David Machin

chapter 11|16 pages

The ‘Semiotics of Value’ in Upcycling

WithArlene Archer, Anders Björkvall

chapter 12|22 pages

Multimodal Recontextualisations of Images in Violent Extremist Discourse

WithKay L. O’Halloran, Sabine Tan, Peter Wignell, Rebecca Lange
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