Overview

This collection advances research on multimodality in digital communication with a focus on social media in the French context. The volume brings together perspectives from scholars across disciplines toward bridging social semiotics, as informed by Systemic Functional Linguistics, with French linguistics and discourse analysis, using examples from digital communication as a focal point. Chapters explore different genres and communicative modes, from online scientific writing to video games to news reporting, as well as different multimodal configurations, from text/image and speech/gesture to emergent digital repertoires such as emoji, avatars and memes. The volume additionally offers insights into the online multimodal construal of hallmarks of French society and culture. Taken together, the book offers a window into the wide body of French linguistic scholarship that has otherwise been little seen in the English language market, while also bringing social semiotic theory, little known in the French context, into the spotlight. This book will be of interest to students and scholars in multimodality, digital communication, semiotics, discourse analysis and media and cultural studies.

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9781041120803

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""A must-read for all those scholars who work for the development of interdisciplinary research in transnational perspective. This book is a fantastic mosaic that outlines contemporary French cultural identity while opening a dialogue with mainstream Anglophone research in Multimodality and Social Semiotics. Through a series of fascinating case studies that draw on historical evidence as well as the experience of some of the most contemporary and iconic contexts (i.e. video-games, social media, fashion industry, digital communication), this collection of essays provides a comprehensive overview of the French approach to mediated communication and its socio-cultural roots. Carefully curated to make it widely accessible even in its terminology, this is a really timely and enriching publication."" - Arianna Maiorani, Reader in Linguistics and Multimodality at Loughborough University

Author Information

Fiona Rossette-Crake is Professor in Applied Linguistics in the Department of Applied Languages at Université Paris Nanterre, France.

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