Book review: Anne-Mette Hermans, Discourses of Perfection: Representing Cosmetic Procedures and Beauty Products in UK Lifestyle Magazines

IF 2.4 1区文学 Q1 COMMUNICATION

Discourse & Society Pub Date : 2023-08-31 DOI:10.1177/09579265231152300

H. Ringrow

引用次数: 5

Abstract

become inscribed into the objects, settings and actions we find all around us – into the very stuff of our realities, to take Hjelmslev’s expression. Van Leeuwen shows how multimodality offers a set of tools for revealing how this takes place. We can study how identity manifest itself semiotically. But to know what we are looking at in the semiotics, we must understand social and historical contexts. This very point was also at the heart of RI. But, for us, Multimodality and Identity really shows how to study this. And as such provides, we would argue, an invaluable resource for discourse studies right now. This book tells us what can multimodality offer that is unique. It shows what its inventories of meaning potentials add to existing knowledge. And of course as discourse analysts this is what we are about.

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书评：Anne Mette Hermans，《完美的话语：在英国生活方式杂志中代表美容程序和美容产品》

融入我们周围的事物、环境和行动中——融入我们现实中的东西中，用赫梅尔姆斯列夫的话说。Van Leeuwen展示了多模态是如何提供一套工具来揭示这种情况是如何发生的。我们可以研究身份是如何通过符号表现出来的。但要想知道我们在符号学中看到的是什么，我们必须了解社会和历史背景。这一点也是RI的核心。但是，对我们来说，《多模态与同一性》真正展示了如何研究这一点。因此，我们认为，这为话语研究提供了宝贵的资源。这本书告诉我们多模态能提供什么是独一无二的。它展示了其意义潜力清单对现有知识的补充。当然，作为话语分析人士，这就是我们要做的。

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Discourse & Society Multiple-

CiteScore

4.50

自引率

4.50%

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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.