Handbook of Linguistics and Multimodality

The first handbook devoted entirely to multimodality in modern linguistics research Multimodality research draws on diverse paradigms and is of relevance to researchers working across all linguistic subfields, but there has never before been a comprehensive collection of work considering how multimodality impacts linguistics research and what methods might drive that research in the future. The Handbook of Linguistics and Multimodality provides the first unified overview of multimodality approaches in the context of the full breadth of linguistics. With contributions from leading researchers, this volume demonstrates how formal, functional, social, media, psycho-, corpus, and text linguistics are all moving to address communication across modes. Contributions address graphical forms, diagrams, infographics, music, static and dynamic pictures, sounds, and spatial configurations. Each chapter shows how linguistic theories and methods extend to multimodal materials and, critically, how multimodal analysis supports advancement in linguistics. The handbook traces clear paths for verbal-language researchers moving into multimodal work and reconnects multimodality scholars with foundational linguistic frameworks. Readers will also find: State-of-the-art treatments of semiotic foundations underlying communication practices that combine multiple expressive modes beyond written and spoken languageMethods applicable to audiovisual and visual narratives spanning film, video, social media, and digital media platformsRobust empirical methodologies for multimodal analysis developed through computational, experimental, and corpus-based approaches to diverse communicative phenomenaTheoretical frameworks reconnecting multimodality studies with linguistic origins, addressing gaps that have emerged as researchers move away from foundational methodsAuthoritative overviews suitable as assigned readings in undergraduate and graduate courses across linguistics, communication, and media studies programsDesigned for researchers across multimodality studies and linguistics, and students entering these fields, this handbook provides authoritative orientation across the full range of theoretical positions, empirical methods, and analytical frameworks shaping multimodal linguistics today.