LINGUIST List 33.2918
Mon Sep 26 2022
Books: Making Sense: Cope, Kalantzis
Editor for this issue: Maria Lucero Guillen Puon <luceroguillenlinguistlist.org>
Date: 07-Sep-2022
From: Ellena Moriarty <ellena.moriarty
cambridge.org>
Subject: Making Sense: Cope, Kalantzis
E-mail this message to a friend Title: Making Sense
Subtitle: Reference, Agency, and Structure in a Grammar of Multimodal Meaning
Published: 2022
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
http://www.cambridge.org/linguistics
Book URL:
https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/semantics-and-pragmatics/making-sense-reference-agency-and-structure-grammar-multimodal-meaning?format=PB Author: Bill Cope
Author: Mary Kalantzis
Paperback: ISBN: 9781107589797 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 34.99
Paperback: ISBN: 9781107589797 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 26.99
Paperback: ISBN: 9781107589797 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 31.50
Abstract:
The phenomenon of multimodality is central to our everyday interaction. 'Hybrid' modes of communication that combine traditional uses of language with imagery, tagging, hashtags and voice-recognition tools have become the norm. Bringing together concepts of meaning and communication across a range of subject areas, including education, media studies, cultural studies, design and architecture, the authors uncover a multimodal grammar that moves away from rigid and language-centered understandings of meaning. They present the first framework for describing and analysing different forms of meaning across text, image, space, body, sound and speech. Succinct summaries of the main thinkers in the fields of language, communications and semiotics are provided alongside rich examples to illustrate the key arguments. A history of media including the genesis of digital media, Unicode, Emoji, XML and HTML, MP3 and more is covered. This book will stimulate new thinking about the nature of meaning, and life itself, and will serve practitioners and theorists alike.
Part 0. Meaning; Part I. Reference; Part II. Agency; Part III. Structure.
Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics
Semantics
Written In: English (eng)
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