Making Signs, Translanguaging Ethnographies - Exploring Urban, Rural and Educational Spaces

This book is the start of a conversation across Social Semiotics, Translanguaging, Complexity Theory and Sociolinguistics. In its explorations of meaning, multimodality, communication and emerging language practices, the book includes theoretical and empirical chapters that move toward an understanding of communication in its dynamic complexity.

About the author

Ari Sherris (he, him) is a Professor of Bilingual Education at Texas A&M University-Kingsville in the Tejas Borderlands, USA.  He collaborates with Palestinian landowners and Bedouin shepherds on the West Bank of the Jordan river to free Palestine from the Israeli apartheid occupation, as well as with an Indigenous tribe in Ghana, the Safaliba, who are decolonizing their schools. 
Elisabetta Adami, PhD, is Associate Professor in Multimodal Communication at the University of Leeds, UK. Her research in social semiotic multimodal analysis has a current focus on culture, interculturality and translation. She has published on sign-making practices in place, on urban visual landscapes and superdiversity; in digital environments, on intercultural digital literacies, aesthetics, interactivity and social media practices; and in face-to-face interaction, in intercultural contexts and deaf-hearing interactions. Her latest volume is Multimodal Communication in Intercultural Interaction (2023, Routledge), co-edited with Ulrike Schroeder and Jennifer Dailey-O’Cain. She is a founding editor of the journal Multimodality & Society (SAGE), former editor and in the editorial board of Visual Communication (SAGE) and Multimodal Communication and leads Multimodality@Leeds.

Product details

• Assisted by: Elisabetta Adami (Editor), Ari Sherris (Editor), Sherris Ari (Editor)
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.10.2018
• EAN: 9781788921916
• ISBN: 978-1-78892-191-6
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 210 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 390 g
• Series: Encounters
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries; LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, Anthropology, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Physical, Communication Studies, Social and cultural anthropology, Semiotics / semiology, Bilingualism & multilingualism, Physical anthropology, Bilingualism and multilingualism