Multimodality In The Built Environment: Spatial Discourse Analysis (routledge Studies In Multimodality)

Synopsis

Machine Generated Contents Note: 1.foundations -- 1.1.meaning -- 1.2.system -- 1.3.influences On Meaning -- 1.4.rank And Perspective -- 1.5.genre -- 1.6.people -- 1.7.moving Forward -- 2.construing Living: Apartments, The Representational Metafunction, And The Role Of The User -- 2.1.the Spatial Texts: The Horizon And Matavai -- 2.2.tools For Analysing Representational Meanings -- Functions And Uses -- Denotation And Connotation -- Processes, Participants, And Circumstances -- 2.3.living In A Resort: From Uses To Intertextuality -- 2.4.self, Community, And Security: Effects On Interactional Meanings -- 2.5.carriers Of Organisational Meanings: Navigation Path -- 2.6.conclusions -- 3.enabling Relations: Universities, The Interactional Metafunction, And Social Roles -- 3.1.the Spatial Text: The Menzies Library -- 3.2.preliminary Tools For Analysing Interactional Meanings -- Power -- Social Distance -- Contact -- Involvement -- Control --^ 3.3.enabling Social Roles In The Menzies Library -- 3.4.conclusions -- 4.changing Relations: Learning Spaces, The Interactional Metafunction, And The Nature Of Knowledge Management -- 4.1.the Spatial Text: The Refurbished Study Spaces On Level 3 Of The Menzies Library -- 4.2.interactional Meanings: Extending The Framework -- Modality And Coding Orientation -- Spatial Engagement -- Binding And Bonding -- 4.3.feeling At Home: Modality -- 4.4.feeling At Home: Spatial Engagement -- 4.5.feeling At Home: Binding -- 4.6.feeling At Home: Bonding -- 4.7.feeling Cold: A Different Library -- 4.8.conclusions -- 5.framing Society: Shopping, The Organisational Metafunction, And Social Hierarchy -- 5.1.the Spatial Text: The Queen Victoria Building -- 5.2.tools For Analysing Organisational Meanings -- Information Values -- Framing -- Salience -- Navigation Paths -- Cohesion -- 5.3.constructing And Dissolving A Hierarchy -- 5.4.creating A Cohesive Whole: `brand Qvb' --^ 5.5.organising What? Integrating The Metafunctions -- Polarising Representational Meanings -- Polarising Interactional Meanings -- Polarising Organisational Meanings -- 5.6.conclusions -- 6.individualising Space: Art Museums, The Relational Metafunction, And The Contribution Of Users' Movement -- 6.1.the Spatial Text: White Rabbit Gallery -- 6.2.tools For Analysing Relational Meanings -- Spatial Syntax -- Relational-semantic Connections: Spatiotaxis -- Relational-semantic Connections: Projection And Expansion -- 6.3.relations At Ground Level -- 6.4.relations On Level 1 -- 6.5.relations On Level 3 -- 6.6.moving Around Within A Level -- 6.7.conclusions -- 7.finishing (and Beginning....) -- 7.1.the Analyses Revisited -- 7.2.cross-metafunctional Perspectives: Bringing The Frameworks Together -- 7.3.theory Revisited: Problems And Extensions -- 7.4.links To Genre -- 7.5.extending The Project -- 7.6.the Point Of It All. Louise J. Ravelli And Robert J. Mcmurtrie. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 165-176) And Index.