Frontmatter -- Contents -- How to use this book -- 1 Introduction: the challenge of multimodality -- 2 Recognising multimodality: origins and inspirations -- 3 Where is multimodality? Communicative situations and their media -- 4 What is multimodality? Semiotic modes and a new 'textuality' -- 5 The scope and diversity of empirical research methods for multimodality -- 6 Are your results saying anything? Some basics -- 7 Multimodal navigator: how to plan your multimodal research -- 8 Gesture and face-to-face interaction -- 9 Performances and the performing arts -- 10 Layout space -- 11 Diagrams and infographics -- 12 Comics and graphic novels -- 13 Film and the moving (audio-)visual image -- 14 Audiovisual presentations -- 15 Webpages and dynamic visualisations -- 16 Social media -- 17 Computer and video games -- 18 Final words: ready, steady, analyse! -- Bibliography -- Index