Visual and Multimodal Communication

Applying the Relevance Principle

Charles Forceville (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

312 Seiten

2020
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-084523-0 (ISBN)

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Successful communication requires optimal relevance to a target audience. Relevance theory (RT) provides an excellent model based on this insight, but the impact of the theory has until now been restricted due to an almost exclusive focus on spoken face-to-face communication. Visual and Multimodal Communication: Applying the Relevance Principle is the first book to systematically demonstrate how RT can fulfill its promise to develop into an inclusive theory of communication.

In this book, Charles Forceville refines and adapts RT's original claims to show its applicability to static visuals and multimodal discourses in popular culture genres. Using colorful examples, he explains how RT can be expanded and adapted to accommodate mass-communicative visual and visual-plus-verbal messages. Forceville addresses issues such as the difference between drawing prospective addressees' attention to a message and persuading them to accept it; the thorny continuum from implicit to explicit information; and the role of genre. Case studies of pictograms, advertisements, cartoons, and comics provide contemporary and accessible examples of the importance of genre and of how the RT model can be connected to other approaches.

By expanding the application of relevance theory to include mass-communicative messages, Visual and Multimodal Communication reintroduces a central framework of cognitive linguistics and pragmatics to a new audience and paves the way for an inclusive theory of communication.

Charles Forceville is Associate Professor of Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam. Committed to cognitivist, socio-biological, and relevance-theoretical approaches, he works on multimodality in metaphor, argumentation, and narrative discourse. He is author of Pictorial Metaphor in Advertising (1996) and co-editor of Multimodal Metaphor (2009), Creativity and the Agile Mind (2013), and Multimodal Argumentation and Rhetoric in Media Genres (2017).

Introduction

Chapter 1: Preliminaries
Chapter 2: Relevance Theory-Basics
Chapter 3: Adapting Relevance Theory to Accommodate Visual Communication
Chapter 4: : Relevance Theory and Mediated Mass-Communication
Chapter 5: Genre
Chapter 6: Case Studies: Pictograms, Traffic Signs, and Logos
Chapter 7: Case Studies-Advertising
Chapter 8: Case Studies-Political and Non-Political Cartoons
Chapter 9: Case Studies-Comics
Chapter 10: Controversial Communication
Chapter 11: Concluding Remarks

Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	13.08.2020
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	236 x 157 mm
Gewicht	680 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Kommunikationswissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-19-084523-6 / 0190845236
ISBN-13	978-0-19-084523-0 / 9780190845230
Zustand	Neuware