Making Sense - Reference, Agency, and Structure in a Grammar of Multimodal Meaning

Explains the multimodal connections of text, image, space, body, sound and speech, in both old and new computer-mediated communication systems.

List of contents

Part 0. Meaning; Part I. Reference; Part II. Agency; Part III. Structure.

About the author

Bill Cope is a Professor in the College of Education at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is co-author of multiple books including New Learning: Elements of a Science of Education (Cambridge, 2nd edition, 2012), Literacies (Cambridge, 2nd edition, 2016) and e-Learning Ecologies (2017).Mary Kalantzis was from 2006 to 2016 Dean of the College of Education at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is co-author of multiple books including New Learning: Elements of a Science of Education (Cambridge, 2nd edition, 2012), Literacies (Cambridge, 2nd edition, 2016) and e-Learning Ecologies (2017).

Summary

Brings together concepts of meaning and communication across a range of subject areas such as education, media studies, cultural studies, arts, design and architecture. It will be of interest to scholars and students of semantics and discourse analysis, and those working in the fields of media and communication studies, semiotics, and education.

Product details

• Authors: Bill Cope, Bill (University of Illinois Cope, Cope Bill, Mary Kalantzis, Kalantzis Mary
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2022
• EAN: 9781107589797
• ISBN: 978-1-107-58979-7
• No. of pages: 379
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Philosophy of Language, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Grammar, syntax and morphology, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc