Non-discursive Rhetoric: Image and Affect in Multimodal Composition - Hardcover

Murray, Joddy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0791476758 ISBN 13: 9780791476758

Publisher: State University of New York Press, 2009

Synopsis

Examines the role of image and affect in teaching with new digital technologies and multimedia composition.

Technological advances have the potential to create new languages unlike printed or spoken words. The increased textual complexity generated by sophisticated graphics, photos, hypermedia, film, typography, and other modes of expression requires a theory of language and symbolization that accommodates emotion, ambiguity, simultaneity, and layers of dynamic meaning. In Non-discursive Rhetoric, Joddy Murray uses concepts from philosophy, rhetorical theory, and recent advances in neuroscience to develop a model of composing that connects contemporary writing practices, technology, and image functions within the mind. The theory and classroom practices presented here provide tools for writing teachers to help students compose various hybridized, multimodal texts. Murray highlights the significance for student composition of the relationships among emotions, images, and argumentation, and demonstrates the importance of considering the rhetorical dimensions of design choices in multimodal composition.

About this title

About the Author

Joddy Murray is Associate Professor of Rhetoric and New Media at Texas Christian University.

Edition details

• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0791476758
• ISBN 13: 9780791476758
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 242