Multimodality in Practice

Preface Sigrid Norris 1. Introduction to Part I: Primary Focus: Social Actors and Their Actions Sigrid Norris 2. Teaching Touch/Response-feel: A First Step to an Analysis of Touch from an (Inter)active Perspective Sigrid Norris 3. Interactive Technologies and the Function of the Senses Jens Loenhoff 4. Multi-modal Exchanges and Power Relations in a Public Relations Department Helen Sissons 5. Scientific Visualizations as Discourse Nexus: Transmission of Content or Context for Making Meaning? Shawn Rowe 6. Sacred Time: Temporal Rhythms in Aipan Practice Gudrun Frommherz 7. Display in Online Environments Rodney H. Jones 8. Technology and Reception as Multimodal Re-making Carey Jewitt 9. Introduction to Part II: Primary Focus Cultural Tools Sigrid Norris 10. Normativity and Software: A Multimodal Social Semiotic Approach Emilia Djonov and Theo Van Leeuwen 11. Reception as Social Action: The Case of Marketing Paul White 12. Combining Computational Tools with Systemic Functional Theory for Discourse Analysis Marissa K. L. E, Kay O'Halloran and Kevin Judd 13. Storm over the Starship: A Geosemiotic Analysis of Brand Co-Creation Denise M. Conroy and Richard W. Brookes 14. Multimodal Texts as Mediated Actions: Voice, Synchronization and Layered Simultaneity in Images of Disability Najma Al Zidjali 15. Mediating Multimodal Environmental Knowledge Across Animation Techniques Carmen Daniella Maier 16. Multimodality in Practice: Investigating Theory-in-practice-through-methodology Sigrid Norris