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Title Semiotic margins : meaning in multimodalities / edited by Shoshana Dreyfus, Susan Hood and Maree Stenglin
Published London ; New York : Continuum International Pub. Group, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (275 pages) : illustrations
Contents Introduction; Part One: Beyond Paralinguistics; Chapter 1 The Interpersonal Semiotics of Having a Laugh; Chapter 2 Body Language in Face-to-face Teaching: A Focus on Textual and Interpersonal Meaning; Chapter 3 Grappling with a Non-speech Language: Describing and Theorizing the Non-verbal Multimodal Communication of a Child with an Intellectual Disability; Part Two: Evolving Accounts of Space and Music; Chapter 4 Spaced Out: An Evolving Cartography of a Visceral Semiotic; Chapter 5 Dealing with Musical Meaning: Towards an Embodied Model of Music
Summary Semiotic Margins analyses the meaning making potential of not only language, but modalities like laughter, music, colour, and architectural spaces. By examining resources often positioned on the side-line of mainstream semiotic accounts, this study raises the question of what counts as part of language and communication and why. Beginning with the more established nonverbal resources of communication, four major themes of modalities of meaning are covered. The investigation of music and space looks at how semiotic systems in classical music interact. Using children's books, the relationship be
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Functionalism (Linguistics)
Meaning (Philosophy)
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Semantics.
Functionalism (Linguistics)
Meaning (Philosophy)
Multimodales System
Semiotik
Form Electronic book
Author Dreyfus, Shoshana
Hood, Susan, 1952-
Stenglin, Maree
ISBN 9781441170163
1441170162
9781441192875
1441192875
9781441115218
1441115218