Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
This volume focusses on discourse as a semiotic coherence phenomenon. Mutually referential and constitutive complexes of sign systems are described in terms of their discursive elements. The authors develop a semiotics of discourse, one that regards encodings as instances that generate meaning. They examine a broad range of discursive formalizations, including their multimodal interconnections.
Synopsis
Der Band enthalt Beitrage, die auf der 4. Jahrestagung des Netzwerks 'Diskurs - interdisziplinar' 2014 gehalten wurden. Der Fokus der Beitrage ist auf Diskurs als ein semiotisches Koharenzphanomen gerichtet. Komplexe von Zeichensystemen, die aufeinander verweisen und miteinander Sinn konstituieren, werden in ihrer diskursiven Gepragtheit beschrieben. Im Sinn einer Diskurssemiotik werden diskursive Kodierungen und ihre mutuellen Beziehungen als Bedeutung schaffende Instanzen dargestellt. Diese werden beispielhaft in Bereichen wie der Ess-, Korper-, Bild- und Filmsemiotik, der Semiotik der Kleidung und des Internets, der Raum- und der Geosemiotik sowie der Musiksemiotik exemplifiziert. Der Betrachtung des multimodalen Zusammenhangs von Text, Bild und Ton kommt dabei ein hoher Stellenwert zu. Damit prasentiert der Band Beispiele interdisziplinarer Ansatze und gibt den aktuellen Forschungsstand diskurssemiotischer Diskussionen wieder.
Synopsis
Language in Text and Discourse is an innovative state-of-the-art interdisciplinary series of monographs and edited collections that focus on cutting-edge linguistic studies at the interface between discourse and society including corpus approaches. This series is a forum for studies of language in interaction with other semiotic modes which address the question of how meanings are activated, remade or re-shaped within a variety of contexts and interactions, such as social or textual structures, places, styles, or discursive moments. These are considered to be resources for placemaking or positioning, which correlate and are indexically linked with repetitive semiotic patterns. Verbal and non-verbal positioning as well as conventionalised forms of patterning determine, construe and reflect historically variable concepts of social reality. These are part of a complex network of discursive realities, power relations and voices. The series incorporates studies of social styling and language usage as well as processes of position-ing in a number of different linguistic as well as social, cultural, aesthetic and historical contexts.
By transcending disciplinary boundaries the series is integrative in a number of ways. We will publish linguistic studies written in English or German about grammatical, knowledge-oriented, stylistic and sociolinguistic approaches within the fields of discourse analy-sis or corpus linguistics. These studies com-bine quantitative and qualitative investigations or represent mono- or multi-modal analyses. All submissions will be peer-reviewed.
Editors:
Beatrix Busse, professor of English linguistics, is Vice-rector for teaching and learning at the University of K ln (Germany).
Ingo H. Warnke holds the chair of German linguistics and interdisciplinary linguistics at the University of Bremen (Germany).