Book review: Theo van Leeuwen, Multimodality and Identity

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Nuo Chen, D. Machin
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Since the publication of Reading Images (RI) by Gunther Kress and Theo van Leeuwen kick-started the study of multimodality in the 1990s, the field has grown and flourished. It is now common to find multimodality addressed in research across discourse studies, and van Leeuwen’s latest book Multimodality and Identity, provides a particularly important and exciting resource for this maturing scholarship. The huge breakthrough and sheer wealth of ideas which RI brought has meant that, for many, the systems and models it developed have remained the go-to model for working with multimodality. Perhaps because of this impact, subsequent work by Kress and Van Leeuwen involving a more social application of multimodality has received less attention. In this book, van Leeuwen brings together the toolkit qualities offered by multimodality and a foregrounding how and why texts they must be understood in their social and political contexts. Multimodality and Identity, provides a model for researchers to be mindful both of the social and systemic parts of multimodality. The book credits two intellectuals in the acknowledgements, M.A.K. Halliday and the semiotician Roland Barthes, who was interested in how power, identities and mythologies are coded into everyday communication, mundane practices and objects. Multimodality and Identity, like van Leeuwen’s earlier work in Critical Discourse Analysis, is indebted to the project of showing how concealed ideology can be revealed. Multimodality can be used to reveal the more buried myths, expectations, power relations and ideologies which shape our lives and societies. There is much that is familiar from Van Leeuwen’s groundbreaking work over the past few decades in the chapters of Multimodality and Identity. There are about colour, textures, typography, shape and movement. But this book is so much more than inventories for documenting the semiotics of these things. This is not a book about the systems themselves, but is rather concerned, in the fashion of Barthes, with how the meanings 1134443 DAS0010.1177/09579265221134443Discourse & SocietyBook reviews book-review2022
书评:西奥·范·莱文,《多模态与身份》
自从Gunther Kress和Theo van Leeuwen在20世纪90年代出版了《阅读图像》(Reading Images, RI),开启了对多模态的研究以来,这一领域得到了发展和繁荣。现在,在跨话语研究中发现多模态是很常见的,范·莱文的新书《多模态与身份》为这一成熟的学术研究提供了特别重要和令人兴奋的资源。国际扶轮带来的巨大突破和绝对丰富的思想意味着,对许多人来说,它开发的系统和模型仍然是处理多模态的首选模型。也许正是由于这种影响,克雷斯和范·鲁文的后续研究涉及多模态的社会应用,但受到的关注较少。在这本书中,范·莱文汇集了多模态提供的工具包特性,并展望了如何以及为什么必须在其社会和政治背景下理解文本。《多模态与同一性》一书为研究者提供了一个既关注多模态的社会部分又关注多模态的系统部分的模型。这本书在致谢中赞扬了两位知识分子,M.A.K. Halliday和符号学家Roland Barthes,他们对权力、身份和神话如何被编码到日常交流、世俗实践和物体中很感兴趣。《多模态与身份》,就像范·莱文早期的作品《批判话语分析》一样,是为了展示隐藏的意识形态是如何被揭示的。多模态可以用来揭示更多被掩埋的神话、期望、权力关系和意识形态,它们塑造了我们的生活和社会。在《多模态》和《同一性》的章节中,范·莱文在过去几十年的开创性工作中有很多我们熟悉的内容。有关于颜色,纹理,排版,形状和运动。但这本书不仅仅是记录这些东西的符号学。这不是一本关于系统本身的书,而是一本以巴特的方式,关注话语与社会的意义的书
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4.50
自引率
4.50%
发文量
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期刊介绍: Discourse & Society is a multidisciplinary peer-reviewed journal whose major aim is to publish outstanding research at the boundaries of discourse analysis and the social sciences. It focuses on explicit theory formation and analysis of the relationships between the structures of text, talk, language use, verbal interaction or communication, on the one hand, and societal, political or cultural micro- and macrostructures and cognitive social representations, on the other hand. That is, D&S studies society through discourse and discourse through an analysis of its socio-political and cultural functions or implications. Its contributions are based on advanced theory formation and methodologies of several disciplines in the humanities and social sciences.
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