Social Semiotics

Social Semiotics
Author: Robert Ian Vere Hodge
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 300
Release: 1988
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780801495151

A textbook in communication and cultural studies. It offers a comprehensive approach to the study of the ways in which meaning is constituted in social life.


Social Semiotics

Social Semiotics
Author: Thomas Hestbaek Andersen
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 183
Release: 2015-03-27
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1317447875

M.A.K Halliday’s work has been hugely influential in linguistics and beyond since the 1960s. This is a collection of interviews with key figures in the generation of social semioticians who have taken Halliday’s concept of social semiotics and developed it further in various directions, making their own original contributions to theory and practice. This book highlights their main lines of thought and considers how they relate to both the original concept of social semiotics and to each other. Key themes include: Linguistic studies, multilinguality and evolution of language; Text, discourse and classroom studies; Digital texts, computer communication and science teaching; Multimodal text- and discourse analysis; Education and literacy; Media work and visual and audio modes; Critical Discourse Analysis. Featuring interviews with leading figures from linguistics, education and communication studies, a framing introduction and concluding chapter summing up commonalities and differences, connections and conflicts and key themes, this is essential reading for any scholar or student working in the area of social semiotics and systemic functional linguistics. Additional video resources are available on the Routledge website. Featuring: Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen, Theo Van Leeuwen, James R. Martin, Jay Lemke, Gunther Kress


Introducing Social Semiotics

Introducing Social Semiotics
Author: Theo Van Leeuwen
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2005
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780415249430

Introducing Social Semiotics uses a wide variety of texts including photographs, adverts, magazine pages and film stills to explain how meaning is created through complex semiotic interactions. Practical exercises and examples as wide ranging as furniture arrangements in public places, advertising jingles, photojournalism and the rhythm of a rapper's speech provide readers with the knowledge and skills they need to be able to analyse and also produce successful multimodal texts and designs. The book traces the development of semiotic resources through particular channels such as the history of the Press and advertising; and explores how and why these resources change over time, for reasons such as advancing technology. Featuring a full glossary of terms, exercises, discussion points and suggestions for further reading, Introducing Social Semiotics makes concrete the complexities of meaning making and is essential reading for anyone interested in how communication works.


Social Semiotics as Praxis

Social Semiotics as Praxis
Author: Paul J. Thibault
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 362
Release: 1990
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9781452902753

In Social Semiotics as Praxis, Paul J. Thibault rescues semiotics from terminal formalism by recognizing that the object of a semiotic inquiry is necessarily the way in which human beings, individually and collectively, make sense of their lives. Focusing on Vladimir Nabokov's Ada, he develops a conception of social semiotics that is a form of both social action and political praxis. Thibault's principal intellectual sources are, among others, Bakhtin, Volosinov, Derrida, Foucault, Gramsci, Habermas, and Halliday. Thibault combines the work of Halliday in particular with is own theories of semiotics to explore the dynamics of quoting and reporting speech and to develop a critique of the categories of "self" and "representation." Thibault accounts for the meaningful relationships constructed among texts and elaborates on the two main themes of relational levels in texts and the dynamics of contextualization to give voice to a unifying discourse for talking about social meaning making.


Multimodality

Multimodality
Author: Gunther R. Kress
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2010
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0415320607

Gunther Kress, a pioneer in the field of multimodality and the co-author of the bestselling Reading Images, produces a comprehensive theoretical framework for the study of the topic providing sample analyses and suggestions for further reading.


Advancing Multimodal and Critical Discourse Studies

Advancing Multimodal and Critical Discourse Studies
Author: Sumin Zhao
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2017-09-08
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1315520990

As a founder and leading figure in multimodality and social semiotics, Theo van Leuween has made significant contributions to a variety of research fields, including discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, communication and media studies, education, and design. In celebration of his illustrious research career, this volume brings together a group of leading and emerging scholars in these fields to review, explore and advance two central research agendas set out by van Leeuwen: the categorisation of the meaning potential of various semiotic resources and the examination of their uses in different forms of communication, and the critical analysis of the interaction between semiotic forms, norms and technology in discursive practices. Through 11 cutting-edge research papers and an experimental visual essay, the book investigates a broad range of semiotic resources including touch, sound, image, texture, and discursive practices such as community currency, fitness regime, film scoring, and commodity upcycling. The book showcases how social semiotics and multimodality can provide insights into the burning issues of the day, such as global neoliberalism, terrorism, consumerism, and immigration.


Language, Context, and Text

Language, Context, and Text
Author: Michael Alexander Kirkwood Halliday
Publisher: Deakin University Press
Total Pages: 144
Release: 1985
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN:


Women in Social Semiotics and SFL

Women in Social Semiotics and SFL
Author: Eva Maagerø
Publisher: Routledge Studies in Linguistics
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2021
Genre: Functionalism (Linguistics)
ISBN: 9780367356026

This book showcases interviews with nine women who have made pioneering contributions to social semiotics and systemic functional linguistics. This book will be key reading for students and scholars in these fields, as well as those in the areas of language pedagogy, literacy, and multimodality.