Multimodality in the Built Environment: Spatial Discourse Analysis

Author:   Louise J. Ravelli (University of New South Wales, Australia) ,  Robert J. McMurtrie (UTS:Insearch, Australia) ,  Robert J. McMurtrie
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:  

9780415716185


Pages:   206
Publication Date:   24 November 2015
Format:   Hardback
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Multimodality in the Built Environment: Spatial Discourse Analysis


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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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Author:   Louise J. Ravelli (University of New South Wales, Australia) ,  Robert J. McMurtrie (UTS:Insearch, Australia) ,  Robert J. McMurtrie
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.430kg
ISBN:  

9780415716185


ISBN 10:   0415716187
Pages:   206
Publication Date:   24 November 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

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

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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.

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