Critical Analysis of Multimodal Discourse

Bibliographic Data

ID23720356
AuthorsT Van Leeuwen (0000-0003-2163-8700, corresponding author)
Year2012
Publication date2012-11-05
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeCHAPTER
VenueEncyclopedia of Applied Linguistics (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/9781405198431.wbeal0269
OpenAlexW1504533348
ISBN9781405198431
LanguageEN
Citations received25
References cited11

The term “critical analysis of multimodal discourse” suggests a merger of two distinct fields of applied linguistics: critical discourse analysis and multimodality. At present it cannot be said that such a merger has taken place. Unlike critical discourse analysis and multimodality, the “critical analysis of multimodal discourse” is not—or not yet—a field with its own conferences, journals, edited books, and so on. Although some critical discourse analysts focus on multimodal texts and some multimodal analysts take a critical stance, they are in the minority, in both fields, despite the increasingly important role of multi‐modal discourse in many social and political contexts, especially since the emergence of the Internet. It is therefore best to separately survey multimodal work within the tradition of critical discourse analysis and critical work within the tradition of multimodality; and to then assess whether—and if so, to what degree—a coherent field of study has begun to emerge, even though it does not as yet have a clear academic identity of its own.

Critical discourse analysis · Linguistics · Political science · Computer Science · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Philosophy

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