Multimodality : : Foundations, Research and Analysis – A Problem-Oriented Introduction / / John Bateman, Janina Wildfeuer, Tuomo Hiippala.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2017 Part 1
• VerfasserIn: Bateman, John,; Hiippala, Tuomo,; Wildfeuer, Janina,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Mouton Textbook
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (VIII, 416 p.)

This textbook provides the first foundational introduction to the practice of analysing multimodality, covering the full breadth of media and situations in which multimodality needs to be a concern. Readers learn via use cases how to approach any multimodal situation and to derive their own specific...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• How to use this book
• Part I: Working your way into ‘multimodality’
• 1 Introduction: the challenge of multimodality
• 2 Recognising multimodality: origins and inspirations
• 3 Where is multimodality? Communicative situations and their media
• 4 What is multimodality? Semiotic modes and a new ‘textuality’
• Part II: Methods and analysis
• 5 The scope and diversity of empirical research methods for multimodality
• 6 Are your results saying anything? Some basics
• 7 Multimodal navigator: how to plan your multimodal research
• Part III: Use cases
• Use case area 1: temporal, unscripted
• 8 Gesture and face-to-face interaction
• Use case area 2: temporal, scripted
• 9 Performances and the performing arts
• Use case area 3: spatial, static
• 10 Layout space
• 11 Diagrams and infographics
• 12 Comics and graphic novels
• Use case area 4: spatial, dynamic
• 13 Film and the moving (audio-)visual image
• 14 Audiovisual presentations
• Use case area 5: spatiotemporal, interactive: ‘media that bite back’
• 15 Webpages and dynamic visualisations
• 16 Social media
• 17 Computer and video games
• 18 Final words: ready, steady, analyse!
• Bibliography
• Index