My ambitions were never very high regarding editing something larger than an individual volume. It took the persuasive powers of my colleagues, mainly Jana PFLAEGING, to get me aboard a train rumbling very slowly to a book series in multimodality. If it hadn’t been for her and Janina WILDFEUER’s painstaking and persistent efforts, this train would have never left the station in the first place.
Pathways to Multimodality bietet Forscher*innen aus Linguistik, Medienwissenschaften, Visueller Kommunikation, Journalismus, Rhetorik, Filmwissenschaften, Comicstudien u.v.a. ein neuartiges Publikationsforum für vielgestaltige Beiträge zur Multimodalitätsforschung. (…) Einen wichtigen Schwerpunkt der Reihe bilden empirische Arbeiten, die sich auf größere multimodale Datensätze stützen und qualitative, quantitative oder mixed-methods Ansätze verfolgen. Außerdem stehen Beiträge zur Weiterentwicklung der Theorie und Methode von Multimodalität im Vordergrund. Pathways to Multimodality legt Wert auf eine klare Sprache und Präsentationsform.
Website of the Book Series at de Gruyter
‚Pathways to Multimodality‘, which is the collaborative effort of Jana PFLAEGING, Janina WILDFEUER, John BATEMAN and myself, did see the light of day in 2024, after protracted negotiations with de Gruyter. We are very happy to have attracted a number of authors that are now in a scheduled pipeline. Also, we are especially pleased to have a first volume out there in print and open access: So, thanks to Katharian CHRIST for her decision to publish with us and to make the project happen in such a short time.
Our hope is that more and more scholars will recognize our book series as a suitable forum to publish current work in multimodality, whatever its orientation and object of study. So, do spread the word, will you.
Prof. Dr. Hartmut Stöckl 