This book examines film as a multimodal text and an audiovisual synthesis, bringing together current work within the fields of narratology, philosophy, multimodal analysis, sound as well as cultural studies in order to cover a wide range of international academic interest. The book provides new insights into current work and turns the discussion towards recent research questions and analyses, representing and constituting in each contribution new work in the discipline of film text analysis. With the help of various example analyses, all showing the methodological applicability of the discussed issues, the collection provides novel ways of considering film as one of the most complex and at the same time broadly comprehensible texts.

This book examines film as a multimodal text and an audiovisual synthesis, bringing together current work within the fields of narratology, philosophy, multimodal analysis, sound as well as cultural studies in order to cover a wide range of international academic interest. The book provides new insights into current work and turns the discussion towards recent research questions and analyses, representing and constituting in each contribution new work in the discipline of film text analysis. With the help of various example analyses, all showing the methodological applicability of the discussed issues, the collection provides novel ways of considering film as one of the most complex and at the same time broadly comprehensible texts.

This volume advances the data-based study of multimodal artefacts and performances by showcasing methods and results from the latest endeavors in empirical multimodal research, representing a vibrant international and interdisciplinary research community. The collated chapters identify and seek to inspire novel, mixed-method approaches to investigate meaning-making mechanisms in current communicative artifacts, designs, and contexts; while attending to their immersive, aesthetic, and ideological dimensions. Each contribution details innovative aspects of empirical multimodality research, offering insights into challenges evolving from quantitative approaches, particular corpus work, results from eye-tracking and psychological experiments, and analyses of dynamic interactive experiences. The approaches and results presented foreground the inherent multidisciplinary nature and implications of multimodality, renegotiating concepts across linguistics, media studies, (social) semiotics, game studies, and design. With this, the volume will inform both current and future developments in theory, methods, and transdisciplinary contexts and become a landmark reference for anyone interested in the empirical study of multimodality.

Seit Langem sind die unterschiedlichen Relationen zwischen Sprache und Bild ein wichtiger Forschungsgegenstand der Linguistik, insbesondere der Textlinguistik und der Medienlinguistik. Dieser Band moechte die Diskussion in zweierlei Hinsicht weiter voranbringen: Er pladiert zum einen dafur, ein deutlich breiteres Spektrum von Anwendungssituationen in den Fokus zu nehmen, um die Vielfalt der Bild-Text-Relationen besser zu umreissen. Zum anderen moechte er dazu anregen, sich tiefergehend mit den Mechanismen und Prinzipien der Wechselwirkung zwischen Zeichenmodalitaten auseinanderzusetzen. Die Beitrage sind dem Bereich der oeffentlichen Kommunikation zuzuordnen und beschaftigen sich eingehend mit beiden Problemfeldern.