Discourses, modes, media and meaning in an era of pandemic : a multimodal discourse analysis approach /: a multimodal discourse analysis approach. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Sabine Tan, Marissa K.L.E.
• Editors: Tan, Sabine; K. L. E., Marissa
• Contents: Table of contents List of figures List of tables List of contributors Introduction 1. Discourses, modes, media and meaning in an era of pandemic: A multimodal discourse analysis approach Sabine Tan and Marissa K. L. E Part I. Use of semiotic modes/resources in COVID-19 discourses 2. ‘Stay at home’: Speech acts in Arab political cartoons on COVID-19 pandemic Ahmed Abdel-Raheem 3. Communication as ‘Graphic Medicine’: A multimodal social semiotic approach Marissa K. L. E and Sabine Tan Part II. Use of media/media technologies in COVID-19 discourses 4. Design considerations for digital learning during the COVID-19 pandemic: Losses and gains Fei Victor Lim and Weimin Toh 5. Phraseology and imagery in UK public health agency COVID-19 tweets David Oakey, Christian Jones and Kay L. O'Halloran Part III. Communicative functions/strategies of COVID-19 discourses 6. Australian universities engaging international students during the COVID-19 pandemic: A study of multimodal public communications with students Zuocheng Zhang, Toni Dobinson and Wei Wang 7. "We are in this together": Cultural branding and affective activations in a pandemic context Carl Jon Way Ng 8. Defamiliarise to engage the public: A multimodal study of a science video about COVID-19 on Chinese social media Zhang Yiqiong, Tan Rongle, Marissa K. L. E and Sabine Tan 9. Beyond Reporting: The communicative functions of social media news during the COVID-19 Pandemic Yuanzheng Wu and Dezheng (William) Feng 10. Exploring strategies of multimodal crisis and risk communication in the business and economic discourses of global pandemic news Carmen Daniela Maier and Silvia Ravazzani Part IV. Wider communicative meanings/purposes of COVID-19 discourses 11. “Stay Alert, Control the Virus, Make Memes”: A multimodal discourse analysis of UK internet memes during the COVID-19 pandemic Avery Anapol 12. Everyday acts of social-semiotic inquiry: Insights into emerging practices from the research collective PanMeMic Elisabetta Adami and Emilia Djonov Index List of contributors Ahmed Abdel-Raheem is a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany. Before joining the University of Bremen, he held lectureship and research positions at Umm al- Qura University in Mecca, Saudi Arabia (2012-2013) and Marie Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin, Poland (2017-2019). He is the author of Pictorial Framing in Moral Politics: A Corpus-based Experimental Study (Routledge, 2019), and has published internationally in a number of journals, such as Discourse and Society, Metaphor and the Social World, Visual Communication Quarterly, Graphic Novels and Comics, Cognitive Linguistic Studies, Information Design Journal, Multimodal Communication, Social Semiotics, Pragmatics and Cognition, Cultural Cognitive Science, Journal of Pragmatics, and Intercultural Pragmatics .　 Elisabetta Adami is Associate Professor in Multimodal Communication at the School of Languages, Cultures and Societies, University of Leeds, UK. Her research specialises in social semiotic multimodal analysis. She is currently working on developing theories and methods for the analysis of inter- cross- and trans-cultural communication, with a focus on issues of mediation and translation. Recent publications include journal articles, edited special issues and volumes on sign-making practices in place (on urban visual landscapes and superdiversity), in digital environments (on webdesign and interactivity, YouTube, mobile devices, and issues of digital literacy) and in face-to-face interaction (in intercultural contexts and in deaf-hearing interactions). She is editor of Multimodality and Society, coordinates PanMeMic, and leads Multimodality@Leeds .　 Avery Anapol is a writer and editor with professional experience in social media, 　news editing and political reporting.　She completed her MA in Applied Linguistics at University College London, UK with distinction in September 2020. Her master’s dissertation, supervised by Sophia Diamantopoulou, applied a multimodal social semiotic theoretical framework to explore the social functions and discourses of coronavirus memes. Emilia Djonov is Senior Lecturer in multiliteracies at Macquarie University, Australia. Her research in social semiotics, semiotic technology, and multimodality has been published in journals such as Visual Communication, Social Semiotics, and Text & Talk . She has co-edited the volumes Critical Multimodal Studies of Popular Discourse (Routledge, 2014, with Sumin Zhao) and Advancing Multimodal and Critical Discourse Studies (Routledge, 2018, with Zhao, Björvall and Boeriis), serves on the editorial boards of Multimodal Communication Journal (De Gruyter) and Linguistics and Education (Elsevier), and is a founding member of PanMeMic. Toni Dobinson is an Associate Professor and Discipline Lead in Applied Linguistics, TESOL and Languages at Curtin University, Australia. She coordinates and teaches the Post Graduate Programmes in this area in Perth and Vietnam. She is the winner of multiple teaching awards at faculty, university and national level (Australian Awards for University Teaching (AAUT)) for her culturally inclusive approach. She researches in the areas of language teacher education, language and identity, language and social justice, translingual practices. She has published in numerous Tier 1 journals including the International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, HERD, Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education and Language Teaching Research . She is the co-editor of the book Literacy Unbound: Multiliterate, Multilingual, Multimodal (2019, Springer).　 Marissa K. L. E is currently a Lecturer at the Centre for English Language Communication (CELC) at the National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore.　Her research interests include systemic functional linguistics, critical multimodal discourse analysis and conceptual metaphor theory. She has published and presented in the areas of social semiotics, multimodal discourse analysis, multiliteracies and the use of multimodality for educational purposes.　She has recently published papers from her PhD work involving the use of an inter-disciplinary approach to examine neoliberal discourses in the context of higher education and how neoliberal logic and subjectivities are represented in such discourses. This approach utilised an innovative theoretical framework combining aspects of Discourse Theory with Critical Discourse Analysis. Prior to her role at CELC, she had previously worked on research projects in digital humanities, social semiotics and multimodal discourse analysis. Dezheng (William) Feng is Associate Professor and Associate Director of the Research Centre for Professional Communication in English at the Department of English and communication, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong. His research focuses on the critical and multimodal discourse analysis of various media and communication practices. His publications appeared in journals such as　Journal of Pragmatics, 　Discourse and Communication, and　Visual Communication . Christian Jones is a Reader in TESOL and Applied Linguistics in the Department of English at the University of Liverpool. His main research interests are connected to spoken language and he has published research related to spoken corpora, lexis, lexico grammar and instructed second language acquisition. He is the co-author (with Daniel Waller) of Corpus Linguistics for Grammar: A guide for research (Routledge, 2015), Successful Spoken English: Findings from Learner Corpora (with Shelley
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 362.196241400141; COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-; Discourse analysis; Modality (Linguistics)
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000772449; 9781000772371; 9781003168195
• Related ISBNs: 9780367767075
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