Theo van Leeuwen

Leeuwen, Theo van 2021 Chapter 5. Ad-appting children’s stories The Pragmatics of Adaptability, Silva, Daniel N. and Jacob L. Mey (eds.), pp. 101–116 | Chapter

This chapter studies the multimedia adaptation of a classic children’s story, Dr Seuss’ The Cat in the Hat. Mixing story-telling with instructional instrumentality and lacking an interactive relationship with the story-teller, the story loses the ‘enchantment’ which, Bettelheim has argued, makes… read more

Leeuwen, Theo van 2020 Gunther’s gallery Language, Context and Text 2:2, pp. 368–376 | Article

Machin, David and Theo van Leeuwen 2016 Multimodality, politics and ideology Multimodality, Politics and Ideology, Machin, David and Theo van Leeuwen (eds.), pp. 243–258 | Article

This journal’s editorial statement is clear that political discourse should be studied not only as regards parliamentary type politics. In this introduction we argue precisely for the need to pay increasing attention to the way that political ideologies are infused into culture more widely, in… read more

Leeuwen, Theo van 2014 1996. ‘The Representation of Social Actors.’ In Texts and Practices: Readings in Critical Discourse Analysis, ed. by Carmen Rosa Caldas-Coulthard & Malcolm Coulthard, 32–70, selected 32-36, 36-42. London: Routledge The Discourse Studies Reader: Main currents in theory and analysis, Angermuller, Johannes, Dominique Maingueneau and Ruth Wodak (eds.), pp. 273–281 | Article

Leeuwen, Theo van 2009 Critical discourse analysis Discourse, of Course: An overview of research in discourse studies, Renkema, Jan (ed.), pp. 277–292 | Article

Machin, David and Theo van Leeuwen 2007 Computer games as political discourse: The case of Black Hawk Down The Soft Power of War, Chouliaraki, Lilie (ed.), pp. 109–128 | Article

The paper analyses how the March 1993 American intervention in Somalia is represented in the movie Black Hawk Down and the computer game of the same name. Using a discourse historical approach, the paper combines three methods: (1) analysis of the ‘special operations discourse’ that underlies both… read more

Leeuwen, Theo van 2006 Towards a semiotics of typography Information Design Journal 14:2, pp. 139–155 | Article

This article outlines a social semiotic approach to analysing the ideational, interpersonal and textual meaning potentials of letter forms, drawing on Jakobson’s distinctive feature analysis and Lakoff and Johnson’s theory of experiential metaphor. Distinctive features are recognized and applied to… read more

Leeuwen, Theo van 2005 Three models of interdisciplinarity A New Agenda in (Critical) Discourse Analysis: Theory, methodology and interdisciplinarity, Wodak, Ruth and Paul Chilton (eds.), pp. 3–18 | Article

Machin, David and Theo van Leeuwen 2005 Computer games as political discourse: The case of Black Hawk Down The Soft Power of War: Legitimacy and community in Iraq war discourses, Chouliaraki, Lilie (ed.), pp. 119–141 | Article

The paper analyses how the March 1993 American intervention in Somalia is represented in the movie Black Hawk Down and the computer game of the same name. Using a discourse historical approach, the paper combines three methods: (1) analysis of the ‘special operations discourse’ that underlies both… read more

Leeuwen, Theo van 2003 A multimodal perspective on composition Framing and Perspectivising in Discourse, Ensink, Titus and Christoph Sauer (eds.), pp. 23–61 | Article

Leeuwen, Theo van and Adam Jaworski 2003 The discourses of war photography: Photojournalistic representations of the Palestinian-Israeli war Journal of Language and Politics 1:2, pp. 255–275 | Article

Photography has a long history of (de-)legitimation of wars. In this paper we examine the visual rhetoric of two newspapers, the British Guardian and the Polish Gazeta Wyborcza in their representation of the Palestinian-Israeli war in October 2000. Although both newspapers have access to the same… read more

Caldas-Coulthard, Carmen Rosa and Theo van Leeuwen 2002 4. Stunning, shimmering, iridescent: Toys as the representation of gendered social actors Gender Identity and Discourse Analysis, Litosseliti, Lia and Jane Sunderland (eds.), pp. 91–108 | Article

Leeuwen, Theo van 1987 Generic strategies in press journalism Australian Applied Language Studies, McNamara, Tim F. (ed.), pp. 199–220 | Article

This paper proposes a three-tiered approach to genre analysis. A system of generic stages is derived from configurations of options from the systems of transitivity, mood, theme, conjunction, reference and tense. Generic structures, motivated by context-specific generic strategies, are, in turn,… read more

Journal

Pragmatics and Society (PS)

Edited by Daria Dayter

Title

Multimodality, Politics and Ideology

Edited by David Machin and Theo van Leeuwen

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