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This book presents a new basis for the empirical analysis of
film. Starting from an established body of work in film theory, the
authors show how a close incorporation of the current state of the
art in multimodal theory, including accounts of the syntagmatic and
paradigmatic axes of organisation, discourse semantics and advanced
layout structure, provides a methodology by which concrete details
of film sequences drive mechanisms for constructing filmic
discourse structures. The book introduces the necessary background,
the open questions raised, and the method by which analysis can
proceed step-by-step with extensive examples drawn from a broad
range of films. The book aims to provide an analytic tool set that
will enable the reader to approach the study of film organisation
with new levels of detail, probing deeply into the fundamental
question of film as to just how it is that films reliably
communicate meaning.
Text and image are used together in an increasingly flexible
fashion and many disciplines and areas of study are now attempting
to understand how these combinations work.This introductory
textbook explores and analyses the various approaches to
multimodality and offers a broad, interdisciplinary survey of all
aspects of the text-image relation. It leads students into detailed
discussion concerning a number of approaches that are used. It also
brings out their strengths and weaknesses using illustrative
example analyses and raises explicit research questions to
reinforce learning. Throughout the book, John Bateman looks at a
wide range of perspectives: socio-semiotics, visual communication,
psycholinguistic approaches to discourse, rhetorical approaches to
advertising and visual persuasion, and cognitive metaphor theory.
Applications of the styles of analyses presented are discussed for
a variety of materials, including advertisements, picture books,
comics and textbooks. Requiring no prior knowledge of the area,
this is an accessible text for all students studying text and image
or multimodality within English Language and Linguistics, Media and
Communication Studies, Visual and Design Studies.
Text and image are used together in an increasingly flexible
fashion and many disciplines and areas of study are now attempting
to understand how these combinations work.This introductory
textbook explores and analyses the various approaches to
multimodality and offers a broad, interdisciplinary survey of all
aspects of the text-image relation. It leads students into detailed
discussion concerning a number of approaches that are used. It also
brings out their strengths and weaknesses using illustrative
example analyses and raises explicit research questions to
reinforce learning. Throughout the book, John Bateman looks at a
wide range of perspectives: socio-semiotics, visual communication,
psycholinguistic approaches to discourse, rhetorical approaches to
advertising and visual persuasion, and cognitive metaphor theory.
Applications of the styles of analyses presented are discussed for
a variety of materials, including advertisements, picture books,
comics and textbooks. Requiring no prior knowledge of the area,
this is an accessible text for all students studying text and image
or multimodality within English Language and Linguistics, Media and
Communication Studies, Visual and Design Studies.
This book presents a new basis for the empirical analysis of film.
Starting from an established body of work in film theory, the
authors show how a close incorporation of the current state of the
art in multimodal theory-including accounts of the syntagmatic and
paradigmatic axes of organisation, discourse semantics and advanced
'layout structure'-builds a methodology by which concrete details
of film sequences drive mechanisms for constructing filmic
discourse structures. The book introduces the necessary background,
the open questions raised, and the method by which analysis can
proceed step-by-step. Extensive examples are given from a broad
range of films. With this new analytic tool set, the reader will
approach the study of film organisation with new levels of detail
and probe more deeply into the fundamental question of the
discipline: just how is it that films reliably communicate meaning?
Multimodality's popularity as a semiotic approach has not resulted
in a common voice yet. Its conceptual anchoring as well as its
empirical applications often remain localized and disparate, and
ideas of a theory of multimodality are heterogeneous and
uncoordinated. For the field to move ahead, it must achieve a more
mature status of reflection, mutual support, and interaction with
regard to both past and future directions. The red thread across
the disciplines reflected in this book is a common goal of
capturing the mechanisms of synergetic knowledge construction and
transmission using diverse forms of expressions, i.e.,
multimodality. The collection of chapters brought together in the
book reflects both a diversity of disciplines and common interests
and challenges, thereby establishing an excellent roadmap for the
future. The contributions revisit and redefine theoretical concepts
or empirical analyses, which are crucial to the study of
multimodality from various perspectives, with a view towards
evolving issues of multimodal analysis. With this, the book aims at
repositioning the field as a well-grounded scientific discipline
with significant implications for future communication research in
many fields of study.
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.
The Deep Dark is a minimalist role playing game designed with
modern theory principles to invoke an old school, or OSR feel
during play. The Deep Dark is a role-playing game played around a
table among a group of friends. Anywhere from 2 to 6 will do,
though usually 4 - 5 is the best. During the game most players take
control of a character and describe how their characters descend
down into the depths of dungeons to fight monsters, overcome traps,
and loot great treasures by using the rules provided in this book.
One player takes on a special role: that of the Game Master. They
set the pacing of the game, and act as an arbitrator of these
rules. This booklet covers the rules of play for The Deep Dark.
These rules are covered in detail under the individual headers:
Dice Mechanics, Characters, Exploration, Camp, Combat, and special
rules for the Game Master.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the
original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as
marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe
this work is culturally important, we have made it available as
part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting
the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions
that are true to the original work.
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