A Multimodal and Ethnographic Approach to Textbook Discourse (Routledge Studies in Multimodality) - Hardcover

Canale, Germán

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0367707322 ISBN 13: 9780367707323

Publisher: Routledge, 2022

Synopsis

This book offers a new framework for analysing textbook discourse, bridging the gap between contemporary ethnographic approaches and multimodality for a contextually sensitive approach which considers the multiplicity of multimodal resources involved in the production and use of textbooks.

The volume makes the case for textbook discourse studies to go beyond studies of textual representation and critically consider the ways in which textbook discourse is situated within wider social practices. Each chapter considers a different social semiotic practice in which textbook and textbook discourse is involved: representation, communication, interaction, learning, and recontextualization. In bringing together this work with contemporary ethnography scholarship, the book offers a comprehensive toolkit for further research on textbook discourse and pushes the field forward into new directions.

This innovative book will be of particular interest to students and scholars in discourse analysis, multimodality, social semiotics, language and communication, and curriculum studies.

About this title

About the Author

Germán Canale is Associate Professor at the Institute of Linguistics in the Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación at the Universidad de la República, Uruguay.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0367707322
• ISBN 13: 9780367707323
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 160