Multimodality in Writing - The State of the Art in Theory, Methodology and Pedagogy

This volume offers the readers a diversity of insight into how multimodality works in texts, and the effects different modes have on generating and understanding meaning.

About the author

Arlene Archer, Ph.D., is the co-ordinator of the Writing Centre at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. Her research draws on popular culture and multimodal pedagogies to enable student access to writing and to Higher Education.

Esther Odilia Breuer, Ph.D., Cologne University, is Head of the Centre for Writing Competency at that university. Her main research interests lie in writing and the cognitive processes underlying (FL) writing.

Contributors are: Elisabetta Adami, Jehad Alshwaikh, Anders Björkvall, Vince Connelly, Øystein Gilje, Stephen Hill, Michael O'Toole, Robert James McMurtrie, Nurit Peled-Elhanan, Daniel Perrin, Karen Press, Briana Ronan, Mona Sakr, Charalampia Sidiropoulou, John Trimbur, Mary Wild.

Product details

• Assisted by: Arlene Archer (Editor), Esther Breuer (Editor)
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.07.2015
• EAN: 9789004296572
• ISBN: 978-90-04-29657-2
• No. of pages: 332
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 239 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 635 g
• Series: Studies in Writing
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics