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The language of war monuments

This book analyses war monuments by developing a multimodal social-semiotic approach to understand how they communicate as three-dimensional objects. The book provides a practical tool-kit approach to how critical multimodal social semiotics should be done through visual, textual and material analys...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Abousnnouga, Gill (Author), Machin, David 1966- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London Bloomsbury Academic 2013
Series:Bloomsbury advances in semiotics
Subjects:
Semiotics > History
Semiotics > Social aspects
Semiotics > Political aspects
War and society
Representation (Philosophy)
Memorialization > Social aspects
Memorialization > Political aspects
Collective memory > Political aspects
Collective memory > Social aspects
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Table of Contents:
  • What is multimodal critical discourse analysis
  • Semiotic resources for 3d communication
  • Approaches to the analysis of commemorative war monuments
  • The political context of British war monuments
  • Analysing the elements and features on war monuments
  • The materiality of monuments
  • Representations of women on war monuments
  • Contemporary monuments and changing discourses of war.

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