ABSTRACT

This volume explores the relationship between aesthetics and traditional multimodal communication to show how all semiotic resources, not just those situated within fine arts, have an aesthetic function. Bringing together contributions from an interdisciplinary group of researchers, the book meditates on the role of aesthetics in a broader range of semiotic resources, including urban spaces, blogs, digital scrapbooks, children’s literature, music, and online learning environments. The result is a comprehensive collection of new perspectives on how communication and aesthetics enrich and complement one another when meaning is made with semiotic resources, making this key reading for students and scholars in multimodality, fine arts, education studies, and visual culture.

chapter 1|11 pages

Introduction

part |42 pages

Part I

part |58 pages

Part II

chapter 4|16 pages

Memoria of a National Trauma

chapter 5|16 pages

Reconstruction of Chilean Memories in the National Stadium of Chile

A Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis of a Centre of Detention and Torture

chapter 6|24 pages

Shaping the Social Through the Aesthetics of Public Places

The Renovation of Leeds Kirkgate Market

part |65 pages

Part IV

chapter 12|15 pages

The Templatized Aesthetics of Wix

A Social Semiotic Technology Approach to Web Design

chapter 13|19 pages

Digital Scrapbooks, Everyday Aesthetics, and the Curatorial Self

Social Photography in Female Visual Blogging

chapter 15|16 pages

Filtered Aesthetics

A Study of Instagram’s Photo Filters From the Perspective of Semiotic Technology

part |65 pages

Part V

chapter 17|17 pages

Tears in Heaven

Eric Clapton Coping with Loss Through Music and Words

chapter 19|14 pages

Intermodal Contrast in Film

Looking for the Aesthetics of Intermodal Relations