Researching Language and Social Media: A Student Guide introduces the linguistic
frameworks currently used to analyse language found in social media contexts. This highly …

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This innovative text draws on theories and methodologies from the fields of multimodality,
ethnography, and literacy studies to explore the sociocultural significance of book ownership …

This paper reflects on the importance of the social to the analysis of historical multimodal
texts and how some concepts and analytical tools from SFL can prevent researchers from …

This paper reflects on the importance of archival research to the analysis of historical
multimodal texts. Specifically, it put forwards a “multimodal ethnohistorical” approach …

This paper aims to introduce educational history to multimodal studies by combining a
source-oriented approach with multimodal social semiotics. We trace the role of objects and …

As ephemera, postcards are often dismissed as unworthy objects for scholarship. For
anthropologists, historians, and other scholars, they have long been considered “low” …

This monograph offers a novel investigation of the Edwardian picture postcard as an
innovative form of multimodal communication, revealing much about the creativity, concerns …

This study uses four examples of bookplates printed in Edwardian Britain (1901–1914) to
demonstrate how the adoption of an ethnohistorical approach to social semiotics can vastly …

Writing surrounds us, it informs us, it guides us, and it controls us. The power and complexity
of this exceptional human invention is a story of change. However, in today's digital world …