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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      22 April 2020
      07 May 2020
      ISBN:
      9781108862059
      9781108495349
      9781108817981
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108862059
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.67kg, 398 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.537kg, 402 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Film, Media, Mass Communication, Media, Mass Communication, Language and Linguistics, Discourse Analysis
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    In recent years, with the rise of new media, the phenomenon of 'multimodality' (communication via a number of modes simultaneously) has become central to our everyday interaction. This has given rise to a new kind of literacy that is rapidly gaining ground as an area of research. A companion to Making Sense, which explored the functions of reference, agency and structure in meaning, Adding Sense extends this analysis with two more surrounding functions. It addresses the ways in which 'context' and 'interest' add necessary sense to immediate objects of meaning, proposing a 'transpositional grammar' to account for movement across these different forms of meaning. Adding Sense weaves its way through philosophy, semiotics, social theory and the history of ideas. Its examples cross a range of social contexts, from the meaning universes of the First Peoples, to the new forms of meaning that have emerged in the era of digitally-mediated communication.

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    '… a sublime collection of their lived experiences, profound reflections, and lives of meaning.'

    Fei Victor Lim Source: SAGE Journals

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