1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910466364003321

Autore

Bateman John A.

Titolo

Multimodality : foundations, research and analysis a problem-oriented introduction / / John Bateman, Janina Wildfeuer, Tuomo Hiippala

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, [Germany] : , : De Gruyter Mouton, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

3-11-047989-3

3-11-048004-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (424 pages)

Collana

Mouton Textbook

Classificazione

AP 15000

Disciplina

302.2

Soggetti

Modality (Linguistics)

Communication - Psychological aspects

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- How to use this book -- 1 Introduction: the challenge of multimodality -- 2 Recognising multimodality: origins and inspirations -- 3 Where is multimodality? Communicative situations and their media -- 4 What is multimodality? Semiotic modes and a new ‘textuality’ -- 5 The scope and diversity of empirical research methods for multimodality -- 6 Are your results saying anything? Some basics -- 7 Multimodal navigator: how to plan your multimodal research -- 8 Gesture and face-to-face interaction -- 9 Performances and the performing arts -- 10 Layout space -- 11 Diagrams and infographics -- 12 Comics and graphic novels -- 13 Film and the moving (audio-)visual image -- 14 Audiovisual presentations -- 15 Webpages and dynamic visualisations -- 16 Social media -- 17 Computer and video games -- 18 Final words: ready, steady, analyse! -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

This textbook provides the first foundational introduction to the practice of analysing multimodality, covering the full breadth of media and situations in which multimodality needs to be a concern. Readers learn via use cases how to approach any multimodal situation and to derive their own specifically tailored sets of methods for conducting



and evaluating analyses. Extensive references and critical discussion of existing approaches from many disciplines and in each of the multimodal domains addressed are provided. The authors adopt a problem-oriented perspective throughout, showing how an appropriate foundation for understanding multimodality as a phenomenon can be used to derive strong methodological guidance for analysis as well as supporting the adoption and combination of appropriate theoretical tools. Theoretical positions found in the literature are consequently always related back to the purposes of analysis rather than being promoted as valuable in their own right. By these means the book establishes the necessary theoretical foundations to engage productively with today’s increasingly complex combinations of multimodal artefacts and performances of all kinds.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910789592503321

Titolo

Global homophobia : states, movements, and the politics of oppression / / Meredith L. Weiss, Michael J. Bosia, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Urbana, Ilinois : , : University of Illinois Press, , [2013]

©2013

ISBN

0-252-09500-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (281 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BosiaMichael J

WeissMeredith L <1972-> (Meredith Leigh)

Disciplina

306.766

Soggetti

Gay rights

Homophobia

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Cover""; ""Title""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Chapter 1 Political Homophobia in Comparative Perspective ""; ""Chapter 2 Why States Act: Homophobia and Crisis""; ""Chapter 3 America's Cold War Empire: Exporting the Lavender Scare""; ""Chapter 4 The Marriage of Convenience: The U.S. Christian Right, African Christianity, and Postcolonial Politics of Sexual Identity""; ""Chapter 5 Gay Rights and



Political Homophobia in Postcommunist Europe: Is there an ""EU Effect""?""; ""Chapter 6 Sexual Politics and Constitutional Reform in Ecuador: From Neoliberalism to the Buen Vivir""

""Chapter 7 Prejudice before Pride: Rise of an Anitcipatory Countermovement""""Chapter 8 Homophobia as a Tool of Statecraft: Iran and Its Queers""; ""Chapter 9 Navigating International Rights and Local Politics: Sexuality Governance in Postcolonial Settings""; ""Chapter 10 Theorizing the Politics of (Homo)Sexualities across Cultures""; ""Chapter 11 Conclusion: On the Interplay of State Homophobia and Homoprotectionism""; ""Contributors""; ""Index""

Sommario/riassunto

While homophobia is commonly characterized as individual and personal prejudice, this collection of essays instead explores homophobia as a transnational political phenomenon. Contributors theorize homophobia as a distinct configuration of repressive state-sponsored policies and practices with their own causes, explanations, and effects on how sexualities are understood and experienced in a range of national contexts. The essays include a broad range of geographic cases, including Cameroon, Ecuador, Iran, Lebanon, Poland, Singapore, and the United States.