Mosbæk Johannessen / van Leeuwen The Materiality of Writing

A Trace Making Perspective
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-1-134-98639-2
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 294 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Multimodality

This book examines the materiality of writing. It adopts a multimodal approach to argue that writing as we know it is only a small part of the myriad gestures we make, practices we engage in, and media we use in the process of trace-making. Taking a broad view of the act of writing, the volume features contributions from both established and up-and-coming scholars from around the world and incorporates a range of methodological and theoretical perspectives, from fields such as linguistics, philosophy, psychology of perception, design, and semiotics. This interdisciplinary framework allows readers to see the relationships between writing and other forms of "trace-making", including architectural drawings, graphic shapes, and commercial logos, and between writing and reading, with a number of illustrations highlighting the visual data used in the forms and studies discussed. The book also looks forward to the future, discussing digital media and new technology and their implications for trace-making. This pioneering volume will be of interest to scholars and researchers in multimodality, literacy, cognitive neuroscience, design theory, discourse analysis, and applied linguistics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mosbæk Johannessen, Christian

van Leeuwen, Theo

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Schrift, Paläographie, Orthographie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction (Christian Mosbæk Johannessen and Theo van Leeuwen)

Part 1: Writing and Reading

2. Touch Lines: Manual Inscription and Haptic Perception (Tim Ingold)

3. The Production and Perception of Handwritten Traces (Marieke Longcamp & Aurelie Lagarrigue)

4. Graphic Trace-Making as Articulated-Expressive Trajectories of Movement (Paul J. Thibault)

Part 2: Manually and Digitally Produced Traces

5. Ink Under My Nails – You Still Have Ten Fingers and Why That Matters (Brody Neuenschwander)

6. (Ir)Regularity (Christian Mosbæk Johannessen and Theo van Leeuwen)

7. The European Lettering Institute – A School for Making Traces (Lieve Cornil)

8. Making Traces in Digital Media (Gunhild Kvåle)

Part 3: Kinds of Trace Making

9. Text as Shape, Text as Meaning: Papyrology and Dotremont’s ‘Logogrammes’ (Ségolène Tarte)

10. Trace and Line in Letter Art (Karine Bouchy)

11. Tracing the Basics – A Study in Graphic Shapes (Andreas Stötzner)

12. Losing to Gain: Balancing Style and Texture in the Starbucks Logo (Giorgia Aiello)

13. Signifying Intimate Needs in Public Spaces – An Analysis of Toilet Signs (Elise Seip Tönnessen)

14. Physical Traces of Religion in Public Spaces (Anne Løvland and Pål Repstad)

15. The Discipline of Tracing in Architectural Drawing (Raymond Lucas)