
Multimodality in the Built Environment
Spatial Discourse Analysis
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 12. February 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
206 pages
978-1-138-49911-9 (ISBN)
Description
This book provides an extended exploration of the multimodal analysis of spatial (three-dimensional) texts of the built environment, culminating in a holistic approach termed Spatial Discourse Analysis (SpDA). Based on existing frameworks of multimodal analysis, this book applies, adapts, and extends these frameworks to spatial texts. The authors argue that choices in spatial design create meanings about what we perceive and how we can or should behave within spatial texts, influence how we feel in and about those spaces, and enable these texts to function as coherent wholes. Importantly, a spatial text, once built, is also a resource which is then used, and an essential aspect of understanding these texts is to consider what users themselves contribute to the meaning potential of these texts. The book takes the metafunctional approach familiar from Systemic-Functional Linguistics (SFL) and foregrounds each metafunction in turn (textual, interpersonal, experiential, and logical), in relation to the detailed analysis of a particular spatial text.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
10 s/w Tabellen
10 Tables, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 11 mm
Weight
309 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-138-49911-9 (9781138499119)
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Louise J. Ravelli | Robert J. McMurtrie
Multimodality in the Built Environment
Spatial Discourse Analysis
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11/2015
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Multimodality in the Built Environment
Spatial Discourse Analysis
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11/2015
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Louise J. Ravelli | Robert J. McMurtrie
Multimodality in the Built Environment
Spatial Discourse Analysis
E-Book
11/2015
Routledge
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Persons
Louise J. Ravelli is Associate Professor of Media and Communication at the University of New South Wales, Australia.
Robert J. McMurtrie is a PhD from the University of New South Wales, Australia, in Multimodality and Spatiogrammatics.
Robert J. McMurtrie is a PhD from the University of New South Wales, Australia, in Multimodality and Spatiogrammatics.
Author
University of New South Wales, Australia
UTS:Insearch, Australia
Content
1. Introduction: New Perspectives on the Built Environment 2. Framing Society: Shopping, the textual metafunction, and social hierarchy 3. Structuring Relations: Learning spaces and the interpersonal metafunction 4. Extending Relations: At home in the library 5. Construing Living: Apartments, the experiential metafunction, and the role of the user 6. Individualizing Space: Art galleries, the logical metafunction, and the contribution of users' movement 7. Conclusion: Holistic analysis