Multimodality Studies in International Contexts: Contemporary Trends and Challenges

This collection responds to the need for theoretically informed and methodologically grounded empirical research on the global transformations in multimodal human communication and social practices in light of recent widespread change.

The volume highlights the need to expand on the established approaches--Social Semiotics, Multimodal Discourse Analysis, and Multimodal (Inter)action Analysis--by complementing them with other analytical frameworks to better understand the impact of unprecedented global challenges, such as Covid-19, on the way humans communicate and make use of meaning-making resources. Bringing together established and emergent scholars from a variety of geographical, cultural, and linguistic contexts, the collection presents studies from both the Global North and Global South, including South Africa, Latin America, Brazil, and the Caribbean, to showcase new perspectives in multimodality research.

This innovative book will be of interest to students and scholars in multimodality, social semiotics, and discourse analysis.

Liliana Vásquez Rocca, PhD, is Assistant Professor in the Department of Humanities, Faculty of Education and Social Sciences, Universidad Andrés Bello, Chile. In 2018-2022, she coordinated Red Latinoamericana de Estudios sobre Multimodalidad (REDLEM, or the Latin American Network of Studies on Multimodality). She specializes in multimodality and media discourse analysis.

Natasha Artemeva, PhD, is Professor, School of Linguistics and Language Studies, Carleton University, Canada. She specializes in Genre Studies, theories of learning, and multimodality. She co-edited Writing in Knowledge Societies (Parlor Press) and Genre Studies around the Globe (Inkshed), and co-authored Reconsidering Context in Language Assessment (Routledge).

Chloë Grace Fogarty-Bourget holds a PhD in Applied Linguistics and Discourse Studies from the School of Linguistics and Language Studies, Carleton University, Canada, where she teaches courses in Writing and Discourse Studies. She specializes in Multimodal Discourse Analysis, Writing and Genre Studies, and the scholarship of university teaching.