Shifts towards Image-centricity in Contemporary Multimodal Practices

Hartmut Stöckl is Full Professor of English and Applied Linguistics at the University of Salzburg, Austria.Helen Caple is Senior Lecturer of Communications at Journalism at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. Jana Pflaeging is Research Assistant of English and Applied Linguistics at the University of Salzburg, Austria.

• Contents1 Shifts towards image-centricity in contemporary multimodal practices: An introductionHartmut Stöckl, Helen Caple & Jana PflaegingPart 1 Advances in theory2 Image-centricity – When visuals take center stage:Analyses and interpretations of a current (news) media practiceHartmut Stöckl3 Intertextual reference in image-centric discourse:Analytical model, classification, and case studyNina-Maria Klug4 The new visuality of writingTheo van LeeuwenCommentary: The critical role of analysis in moving from conjecture to theoryJohn A. BatemanPart 2 Historical developments in image-centric practices5 On the emergence of image-centric popular science stories in National GeographicJana Pflaeging6 Previewing news stories:How contextual cohesion contributes to the creation of news storiesSameera DurraniCommentary: Image-centricity and change in journalistic culturesMartin LuginbühlPart 3 The relative status of image and language7 Image-centric practices on Instagram: Subtle shifts in ‘footing’Helen Caple8 Emoji-text relations on Instagram: Empirical corpus studies on multimodal uses of the iconographetic modeChristina Siever & Torsten Siever9 "And then he said… no one has more respect for women than I do":Intermodal relations and intersubjectivity in image macrosMichele ZappavignaCommentary: Reflections on the relative status of image and languageCarey JewittPart 4 Image-centric practices as global design strategies10 Multimodal mobile news: Design and images in tablet-platform appsJohn S. Knox11 Images as ideology in terrorist-related communicationsPeter Wignell, Sabine Tan, Kay L. O’Halloran, Rebecca Lange, Kevin Chai & Michael Wiebrands12 Putting the data center stage: Graphs, charts and maps in the news mediaMartin EngebretsenCommentary: Image-centric practices as global design strategiesTeal TriggsIndex

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