This book analyses war monuments by developing a multimodal
social-semiotic approach to understand how they communicate as
three-dimensional objects. The book provides a practical tool-kit
approach to how critical multimodal social semiotics should be done
through visual, textual and material analysis. It ties this material
analysis into the social and political contexts of production. Using
examples across the 20th and 21st century the book's chapters offer a
way of analysing the way that monument designers have used specific
semiotic choices in terms of things like iconography, objects, shape,
form, angularity, height, materials and surface realisation to place
representations of war in public places across Britain. This
social-semiotic approach to the study of war monuments serves three
innovative purposes. First, it provides a contribution to the work on
the ideological representations of war in Media and Cultural Studies
and in Critical Discourse Analysis applied specifically to more banal
realisations of discourse. Second, it responds to calls by historians
for innovative ways to study war commemoration by providing an
approach that offers both specific analysis of the objects and attends
to matters of design. Thirdly, following in the relatively recent
tradition of multimodal analysis, the arguments draw on the ideas of
Kress and van Leeuwen (1996, 2001), adapting and extending their
theories and models to the analysis of British commemorative war
monuments, in order to develop a multimodal framework for the analysis
of three dimensional objects.
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ISBN
9781623568962
Publisert
2015
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Bloomsbury Academic
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Product language
Engelsk
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Digital bok
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