Social Semiotics

Author : Robert Ian Vere Hodge
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801495151
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Semiotics written by Robert Ian Vere Hodge and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A textbook in communication and cultural studies. It offers a comprehensive approach to the study of the ways in which meaning is constituted in social life.

Author : Theo Van Leeuwen
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415249430
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Introducing Social Semiotics written by Theo Van Leeuwen and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introducing Social Semiotics uses a wide variety of texts including photographs, adverts, magazine pages and film stills to explain how meaning is created through complex semiotic interactions. Practical exercises and examples as wide ranging as furniture arrangements in public places, advertising jingles, photojournalism and the rhythm of a rapper's speech provide readers with the knowledge and skills they need to be able to analyse and also produce successful multimodal texts and designs. The book traces the development of semiotic resources through particular channels such as the history of the Press and advertising; and explores how and why these resources change over time, for reasons such as advancing technology. Featuring a full glossary of terms, exercises, discussion points and suggestions for further reading, Introducing Social Semiotics makes concrete the complexities of meaning making and is essential reading for anyone interested in how communication works.

Author : Thomas Hestbaek Andersen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317447875
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Semiotics written by Thomas Hestbaek Andersen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-03-27 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: M.A.K Halliday’s work has been hugely influential in linguistics and beyond since the 1960s. This is a collection of interviews with key figures in the generation of social semioticians who have taken Halliday’s concept of social semiotics and developed it further in various directions, making their own original contributions to theory and practice. This book highlights their main lines of thought and considers how they relate to both the original concept of social semiotics and to each other. Key themes include: Linguistic studies, multilinguality and evolution of language; Text, discourse and classroom studies; Digital texts, computer communication and science teaching; Multimodal text- and discourse analysis; Education and literacy; Media work and visual and audio modes; Critical Discourse Analysis. Featuring interviews with leading figures from linguistics, education and communication studies, a framing introduction and concluding chapter summing up commonalities and differences, connections and conflicts and key themes, this is essential reading for any scholar or student working in the area of social semiotics and systemic functional linguistics. Additional video resources are available on the Routledge website. Featuring: Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen, Theo Van Leeuwen, James R. Martin, Jay Lemke, Gunther Kress

Author : Gunther R. Kress
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 0415320607
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Multimodality written by Gunther R. Kress and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2010 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gunther Kress, a pioneer in the field of multimodality and the co-author of the bestselling Reading Images, produces a comprehensive theoretical framework for the study of the topic providing sample analyses and suggestions for further reading.

Author : Bob Hodge
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0745696244
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Semiotics for a Complex World written by Bob Hodge and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-11-02 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social semiotics reveals language's social meaning – its structures, processes, conditions and effects – in all social contexts, across all media and modes of discourse. This important new book uses social semiotics as a one-stop shop to analyse language and social meaning, enhancing linguistics with a sociological imagination. Social Semiotics for a Complex World develops ideas, frameworks and strategies for better understanding key problems and issues involving language and social action in today's hyper-complex world driven by globalization and new media. Its semiotic basis incorporates insights from various schools of linguistics (such as cognitive linguistics, critical discourse analysis and sociolinguistics) as well as from sociology, anthropology, philosophy, psychology and literary studies. It employs a multi-modal perspective to follow meaning across all modes of language and media, and a multi-scalar approach that ranges between databases and one-word slogans, the local and global, with examples from English, Chinese and Spanish. Social semiotics analyses twists and turns of meanings big and small in complex contexts. This book uses semiotic principles to build a powerful, flexible analytic toolkit which will be invaluable for students across the humanities and social sciences.

Author : Paul J. Thibault
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9781452902753
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Semiotics as Praxis written by Paul J. Thibault and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Social Semiotics as Praxis, Paul J. Thibault rescues semiotics from terminal formalism by recognizing that the object of a semiotic inquiry is necessarily the way in which human beings, individually and collectively, make sense of their lives. Focusing on Vladimir Nabokov's Ada, he develops a conception of social semiotics that is a form of both social action and political praxis. Thibault's principal intellectual sources are, among others, Bakhtin, Volosinov, Derrida, Foucault, Gramsci, Habermas, and Halliday. Thibault combines the work of Halliday in particular with is own theories of semiotics to explore the dynamics of quoting and reporting speech and to develop a critique of the categories of "self" and "representation." Thibault accounts for the meaningful relationships constructed among texts and elaborates on the two main themes of relational levels in texts and the dynamics of contextualization to give voice to a unifying discourse for talking about social meaning making.

Author : Eva Maagerø
Publisher : Routledge Studies in Linguistics
ISBN 13 : 9781032057439
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women in Social Semiotics and SFL written by Eva Maagerø and published by Routledge Studies in Linguistics. This book was released on 2023-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book showcases interviews with nine women who have made pioneering contributions to social semiotics and systemic functional linguistics (SFL), highlighting how these women have taken the discipline into new and innovative directions, and the enduring impact of their work. The volume features interviews with a generation of scholars inspired by the prominent linguists Michael Halliday and Ruqaiya Hasan in Sydney, reflecting on their achievements in the advancement of theory, knowledge, and practical application as well as the establishment of research centers in different parts of the world. A consistent interview format helps to illustrate the different directions the work of these scholars has taken and their different takes on key concepts to the discipline such as register, genre, text and context, and multimodality. Taken together, the interviews offer insights into key strands of social semiotic and SFL scholarship and give inspiration toward moving the field into new theoretical and applied directions. Reflecting on the groundbreaking work of renowned women scholars in social semiotics and SFL and their continued global impact, this book will be key reading for students and scholars in these fields, as well as those in the areas of language pedagogy, literacy, and multimodality.

Author : Michael Alexander Kirkwood Halliday
Publisher : Deakin University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Language, Context, and Text written by Michael Alexander Kirkwood Halliday and published by Deakin University Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jeff Bezemer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317418433
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Multimodality, Learning and Communication written by Jeff Bezemer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-11-19 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This state-of-the-art account of research and theorizing brings together multimodality, learning and communication through detailed analyses of signmakers and their meaning-making in museums, hospitals, schools and the home environment. By analyzing video recordings, photographs, screenshots and print materials, Jeff Bezemer and Gunther Kress go well beyond the comfortable domains of traditional sites of (social) semiotic and multimodal research. They steer away from spurious invention and naming of ever more new and exciting domains, focusing instead on fundamentals in assembling a set of tools for current tasks: namely, describing and analyzing learning and communication in the contemporary world as one integrated field. The theory outlined in the book is grounded in the findings of the authors’ wide-ranging empirical investigations. Each chapter evaluates the work that is being done and has been done, challenging accepted wisdom and standing much of it on its head. With extensive illustrations and many examples presented to show the reach and applicability of the theory, this book is essential reading for all those working in multimodality, semiotics, applied linguistics and related areas. Images from the book are also available to view online at www.routledge.com/9780415709620/

Author : Sumin Zhao
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315520990
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Advancing Multimodal and Critical Discourse Studies written by Sumin Zhao and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-08 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.