Multimodality and Time

This ground-breaking book brings together the work of leading theorist, Theo van Leeuwen, on time-based multimodal forms of communication including speech, music and film.

Theo van Leeuwen is currently Professor of Language and Communication at the University of Southern Denmark and Honorary Professor at the University of New South Wales. His many influential publications include Introducing Social Semiotics, The Language of Colour, Reading Images (with Gunther Kress), Organizational Semiotics (with Louise Ravelli, Markus Höllerer, and Dennis Jancsary), and Multimodality and Identity, all published by Routledge.

1. Time and society 2. Rhythm 3. Time in music 4. Time in film 5. Time in language 6. Visualizing time 7. Notes on multimodal analysis