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Type: scientific

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Author: Ferdinand de Saussure

Tags: communication linguistics semiotics discourse semiology

Description: De Saussures seminal work on linguistics (and his embryonic notion of semiotics - his term,De Saussures seminal work on linguistics (and his embryonic notion of semiotics - his term, semiology). Put together from the lecture notes of his students after his death. This is a surprisingly readable book! Very interesting and especially so for Lotman scholars... easy now to see where those later ideas on culture came from. ...

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Type: educational

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Author: Sue Vice

Tags: literary theory communication discourse dialogism chronotope

Description: A helpful introduction to the key concepts of Bakhtin in an easy-to-read format. Brief overviewA helpful introduction to the key concepts of Bakhtin in an easy-to-read format. Brief overview with supporting examples of concepts like: heteroglossia, dialogism, polyphony, carnival and the chronotope. The introduction also provides a good, general overview of Bakhtin and Bakhtinian studies, including a review of authorial controversies concerning his work....

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Type: scientific

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Authors: Gunther Kress Theo Van Leeuwen

Tags: culture communication semiotics discourse multimodality

Description: An exploration of multimodality in our 'highly mediated' world. A foundational theoryAn exploration of multimodality in our 'highly mediated' world. A foundational theory of how meaning is made in 'this period of increasing semiotic fragmentation and cross-over'. A new theory of communication for the era of interactive multimedia....

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Type: educational

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Authors: Rita Kirk Whillock David Slayden

Tags: culture internet discourse

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Type: educational

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Author: Clare Bradford

Tags: criticism colonial discourse literarcy

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Type: educational

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Author: Ron Scollon

Tags: technology semiotics discourse text mediation nexus

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Type: technical

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Authors: Paul J. Thibault Anthony Baldry

Tags: technology meaning discourse multimodality

Description: What are multimodal texts? How can we transcribe and analyse them? How can multimedia and internetWhat are multimodal texts? How can we transcribe and analyse them? How can multimedia and internet help us in multimodal discourse analysis? What postproduction and authoring skills are needed to analyse a multimodal text or to develop a corpus of multimodal texts? How does integrating multimedia meaning-making resources into hypertext multiply our meaning-making potential? How does the study of language relate to multimodality and multimedia, in particular in the e-learning age? How, and to what extent, will multimodal discourse analysis re-shape linguistics? In its attempt to provide answers to the questions raised above, and many others, this book proposes concrete solutions to the problems of multimodal text analysis and transcription of printed texts, websites and film. As such, it constitutes a much needed course in multimodal text transcription and analysis. It also suggests ways in which multimodal discourse analysis can help both educators and students understand how meaning is made in the e-learning environments that now play such an important role in our lives. In both these respects, readers are encouraged to use the book in conjunction with an associated and freely accessible website which provides many illustrations and exercises that further contextualise and exemplify the insights and descriptions provided by the book. As befits a coursebook, the individual chapters of the book are carefully organised in such a way as to provide a step-by-step progression in theoretical and descriptive complexity. ...