The Language of War Monuments

by David Machin and Gill Abousnnouga

Book Overview

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 analysis. It ties this material analysis into the social and political contexts of production. Using examples across the 20th and 21st century the book's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 162356333X
• ISBN13: 9781623563332
• Release Date: December 2013
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.3"