Inside Multimodal Composition

by Andrew Morrison

A variety of discourse modes and compositional practice now pervade much of our mediated communication. Digital tools factor heavily in such composition, and increasingly its collaborative character. They also have a bearing on our changing, and indeed, emerging, practices as designers, educators and researchers. This wide-ranging and ambitious collection of largely project-based contributions addresses these developments with reference to the core notion of multimodality. The chapters take the social semiotics of this approach and relate it to a wide range of disciplines and intersections in a sociocultural perspective on design, mediation and learning. Production based inquiry is also central and offers means of moving inside experimental and more established compositional processes and products

556 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2011