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Sommario
1. Social Semiotics: A theorist and a theory in retrospect and prospect
Emilia Djonov and Sumin Zhao
2. Changing academic common sense: a personal recollection of collaborative work
Gunther Kress 3.
"Strangers in Europe": A discourse-historical approach to the legitimation of immigration control 2015/16
Ruth Wodak
4. The limits of Semiotics – epistemology and the concept of ‘race’
Philip Bell
5. Can a sign reveal its meaning? On the question of interpretation and epistemic contexts
Staffan Selander
6. Towards a multimodal social semiotic agenda for touch
Carey Jewitt
7. Reading that which should not be signified: community currency in the UK
Annabelle Mooney
8. A sound semiotic investigation of how subjective experiences are signified in
Ex-Machina (2014)
Gilbert Gabriel
9. Unravelling the Myth of Multiple Endings and the narrative labyrinth in Mr. Nobody (2010)
Chiao-I Tseng
10. New codifications, new practices: the multimodal communication of CrossFit
Per Ledin and David Machin
11. The ‘Semiotics of Value’ in upcycling
Arlene Archer and Anders Björkvall
12. Multimodal Recontextualizations of Images in Violent Extremist Discourse
Kay L. O’Halloran, Sabine Tan, Peter Wignell, and Rebecca Lange
13. Revisiting the family silver: A visual essay on the grammar of visual design
Morten Boeriis
Info autore
Sumin Zhao is a Carlsberg Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Southern Denmark and the book review editor for Discourse and Communication. Her most recent publications apply a social semiotic approach to analyzing selfies and mobile applications. Her edited volume (with Djonov) Critical Multimodal Studies of Popular Discourse is now in paperback.
Emilia Djonov is a Lecturer in early childhood at Macquarie University, Australia. Her research in multimodality, social semiotics, critical discourse analysis, and multiliteracies has been published in journals such as Visual Communication, Social Semiotics, and Text & Talk. She has co-edited the volume Critical Multimodal Studies of Popular Discourse (Routledge, 2014, with Zhao).
Anders Björkvall is Professor of Swedish at Örebro University, Sweden. His main research interests include multimodality and ethnographies of artefacts and texts. Recent publications: "Multimodal discourse analysis" in Analyzing Text and Discourse (2017) and "Places and spaces for multimodal writing in ’one-to-one’ computing" in Multimodality in Writing (2015).
Morten Boeriis is an Associate Professor at University of Southern Denmark. His most recent publications are on multimodal visual theory and film analysis. His interview book (co-written with Andersen, Maagerø and Tønnessen) Social Semiotics: Key Figures, New Direction is out on Routledge.
Riassunto
This volume highlights the contributions of Theo van Leeuwen to the fields of multimodality, social semiotics, and critical discourse analysis, and demonstrates how the key themes in his work have influenced and will continue to shape multimodal research.
