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The Language of War Monuments (Paperback)
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The Language of War Monuments (Paperback)
Series: Bloomsbury Advances in Semiotics
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This book analyses war monuments by developing a multimodal
social-semiotic approach to understand how they communicate as
three-dimensional objects. The book provides a practical tool-kit
approach to how critical multimodal social semiotics should be done
through visual, textual and material analysis. It ties this
material analysis into the social and political contexts of
production. Using examples across the 20th and 21st century the
book's chapters offer a way of analysing the way that monument
designers have used specific semiotic choices in terms of things
like iconography, objects, shape, form, angularity, height,
materials and surface realisation to place representations of war
in public places across Britain. This social-semiotic approach to
the study of war monuments serves three innovative purposes. First,
it provides a contribution to the work on the ideological
representations of war in Media and Cultural Studies and in
Critical Discourse Analysis applied specifically to more banal
realisations of discourse. Second, it responds to calls by
historians for innovative ways to study war commemoration by
providing an approach that offers both specific analysis of the
objects and attends to matters of design. Thirdly, following in the
relatively recent tradition of multimodal analysis, the arguments
draw on the ideas of Kress and van Leeuwen (1996, 2001), adapting
and extending their theories and models to the analysis of British
commemorative war monuments, in order to develop a multimodal
framework for the analysis of three dimensional objects.
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