Doing critical discourse studies with multimodality: from metafunctions to materiality

Ledin, Per; Machín, David

doi:10.1080/17405904.2018.1468789

Cited by 85 publications

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“…The obtained data also go in line with previous studies on coordination of textual and visual tools in multimodal discourse (Ledin & Machin, 2019).…”

Section: Multimodal Discourse On Brics From National Mass Media Outsisupporting

confidence: 90%

Multimodal Discourse on BRICS Produced by Diverse Stakeholders: Identifying Attitudes, Cultures and Perspectives

Atabekova

Gorbatenko

Shoustikova

2020

SACI

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The paper explores the conceptual vision of BRICS in the contemporary world. The study focuses on language and images that are used within BRICS-related institutional communication. We argue that the research is important because of the increasing impact of BRICS on the development of the multilateral and multipolar world. The research aims to offer preliminary considerations with regard to key topics, features and tools of multimodal discourse that comes from the BRICS nations and representatives of other international/regional organisations. This area has not been subject to academic analysis so far. This confirms the novelty of the present study. The research material includes 600 image-text correlated items from BRICS official sources of information and from organisation and institutions, which are not affiliated with the BRICS and refer to national or international actors. The research combined theoretical analysis of literature, empirical investigation of materials within qualitative paradigm, through content-based analysis and manual coding on thematic and pragmatic criteria. The findings reveal different approaches to BRICS that are introduced by different actors through specific coordination of verbal and visual tools, in explicit and implicit ways. The findings show that BRICS sources contain proportioned use of texts and photos of high-ranking official events, socio-cultural features of BRICS countries, and pictures of youth with regard to BRICS mission, values, goals, and policies. This strengthens the concept of equality and human rights provision in the modern world in general and leads to the understanding of the need to include the issues of youth rights and their equality on the BRICS agenda in an explicit way.

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“…The obtained data also go in line with previous studies on coordination of textual and visual tools in multimodal discourse (Ledin & Machin, 2019).…”

Section: Multimodal Discourse On Brics From National Mass Media Outsisupporting

confidence: 90%

Multimodal Discourse on BRICS Produced by Diverse Stakeholders: Identifying Attitudes, Cultures and Perspectives

Atabekova

Gorbatenko

Shoustikova

2020

SACI

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“…However, items that only share some degree of similarity were not combined for reasons of allowing a wider space for diverse reader interpretations. For instance, ‘multimodal discourse analysis’ and ‘multimodal social semiotic (approach)’ were not coded into one keyword given that some researchers undertake different approaches to multimodal analysis (see intense debate on this matter in Bateman, 2019; Caple, 2019; Ledin and Machin, 2019a, 2019b; O’Halloran et al., 2019).…”

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Sketching landscapes in discourse analysis (1978–2018): A bibliometric study

Huan

Guan

2020

Discourse Studies

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John Swales’ 1986 article ‘Citation analysis and discourse analysis’ was the first to apply citation analysis to describe in-text citations in the field of discourse analysis. Howard White’s 2004 article ‘Citation analysis and discourse analysis revisited’ was written by an information scientist and primarily focused on citation analysis and discourse analysis. Here, we cast a wider net by conducting a bibliometric analysis of discourse analysis to sketch its scientific landscape between 1978 and 2018. Our findings show that discourse analysis has emerged as a major, and increasingly distinctively sociological, contribution to the analysis of language in social life. It is evident that discourse analysts are increasingly interested in such topics as corpus linguistics, digital conversation analysis, discursive news values approach, membership categorization analysis, multimodal analysis and social media. It is a general trend that the United States is no longer the only dominating publication powerhouse in the field. Countries such as the United Kingdom, Australia and China are wielding a growing share of research output.

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“…The contextual and ideological effects analysed are compatible with the preferred reading suggested by the multimodal analysis. This point should be taken into consideration as part of the on-going discussions regarding the nature and principles of the growing field of multimodality (Bateman 2018;Ledin and Machin 2018b;O'Halloran et al 2018).…”

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A multimodal analysis of the representation of the Rohingya crisis in BBC’s Burma with Simon Reeve (2018): Integrating Audience Research in Multimodal Critical Discourse Studies

Castaldi

2020

Multimodal Communication

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The paper proposes the integration of Audience Research in Multimodal Critical Discourse Studies to investigate media discourse. The novel approach is exemplified through a case study: the media interaction between one viewer and the text of his choice, BBC’s travel documentary Burma with Simon Reeve. The qualitative research design incorporates a pre- and after-viewing questionnaire, an interview and the multimodal textual analysis. The analytical focus is on the representation of social actors and it is argued that, through this integrated approach, it is possible to explore media effects on an audience by using the cognitive concepts of contextual effects, adapted from Relevance Theory, and ideological effects, a concept derived from the former and modelled around van Dijk’s definition of ideology.

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Doing critical discourse studies with multimodality: from metafunctions to materiality

Cited by 85 publications

References 19 publications

Multimodal Discourse on BRICS Produced by Diverse Stakeholders: Identifying Attitudes, Cultures and Perspectives

Multimodal Discourse on BRICS Produced by Diverse Stakeholders: Identifying Attitudes, Cultures and Perspectives

Sketching landscapes in discourse analysis (1978–2018): A bibliometric study

A multimodal analysis of the representation of the Rohingya crisis in BBC’s Burma with Simon Reeve (2018): Integrating Audience Research in Multimodal Critical Discourse Studies

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