The Materiality of Writing

A Trace Making Perspective

Christian Mosbæk Johannessen, Theo Van Leeuwen (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

288 Seiten

2017
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-67972-6 (ISBN)

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This book examines the materiality of writing. It adopts a multimodal approach to argue that writing as we know it is only a small part of the myriad gestures we make, practices we engage in, and media we use in the process of trace-making. Taking a broad view of the act of writing, the volume features contributions from both established and up-and-coming scholars from around the world and incorporates a range of methodological and theoretical perspectives, from fields such as linguistics, philosophy, psychology of perception, design, and semiotics. This interdisciplinary framework allows readers to see the relationships between writing and other forms of "trace-making", including architectural drawings, graphic shapes, and commercial logos, and between writing and reading, with a number of illustrations highlighting the visual data used in the forms and studies discussed. The book also looks forward to the future, discussing digital media and new technology and their implications for trace-making. This pioneering volume will be of interest to scholars and researchers in multimodality, literacy, cognitive neuroscience, design theory, discourse analysis, and applied linguistics.

Christian Mosbæk Johannessen is Assistant Professor of Visual Communication at the University of Southern Denmark. Theo van Leeuwen is Professor of Multimodal Communication at the University of Southern Denmark.

Introduction

Christian Mosbæk Johannessen and Theo van Leeuwen

1. The production and perception of handwritten traces

Aurelie Lagarrigue and Marieke Longcamp

2. Touchlines: Manual Inscription and Haptic Perception

Tim Ingold

3. Graphic trace-making as articulated-expressive trajectories of movement: De-textualizing and de-stratifying graphic traces

Paul J. Thibault

4. Ink under my nails

Brody L. Neuenschwander

5. The European Lettering Institute: Or how being left-handed challenged well established mark making methodologies

Lieve Cornil

6. The Discipline of Tracing in Architectural Drawing

Raymond Lucas

7. Contemporary Western Calligraphy: Written Marks as Visible Rhythms

Karine Bouchy

8. Expressing identity in Microsoft Word: A critical discussion of the stylistic normativity of templates and software

Gunhild Kvåle

9. (Ir)regularity

Christian Mosbæk Johannessen and Theo van Leeuwen

10. Losing to gain: Balancing style and texture in the Starbucks logo

Giorgia Aiello

11. Traces in Public Spaces. Studying religious signs in social frames

Anne Løvland and Pål Repstad

12. Calligraphy as Graphically Autonomous Form. A corpus study of Persian calligraphic letterforms using a multimodal approach

Mahdiyeh Meidani

13 Signifying intimate needs in public spaces

Elise Seip Tønnessen

Erscheinungsdatum	30.01.2018
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Studies in Multimodality
Zusatzinfo	12 Tables, black and white; 47 Halftones, black and white; 59 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	544 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Design / Innenarchitektur / Mode
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Kommunikationswissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-138-67972-0 / 1138679720
ISBN-13	978-1-138-67972-6 / 9781138679726
Zustand	Neuware