Introducing Multimodality

Carey Jewitt is Professor of technology and Learning in the Department of Culture, Communication and Media at the Faculty of Education and Society, University College London. She is founding co-editor of the journal Multimodality & Society and has authored/co-authored and edited several books and journal articles in this area, including The Routledge Handbook of Multimodal Analysis most recently Digital Touch. Jeff Bezemer is Professor of Communication and Head of the Department of Culture, Communication and Media at the Institute of Education, University College London. He regularly publishes on multimodal interaction in healthcare, and is the co-author of Multimodality, Learning and Communication. Kay O’Halloran is Chair Professor and Head of the Department of Communication and Media in the School of the Arts at the University of Liverpool. She is the series editor of Routledge Studies in Multimodality and is co-editor of Multimodal Studies: Exploring Issues and Domain.

List of illustrations

About this book

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1 Navigating a diverse field

Chapter 2 Why engage with multimodality?

Chapter 3 Systemic functional linguistics

Chapter 4 Social semiotics

Chapter 5 Conversation analysis

Chapter 6 More approaches to multimodality

Chapter 7 Designing a multimodal study

Glossary

Self-study guide

References

Index