Frontmatter -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Part I: Introduction -- Multimodality: Disciplinary Thoughts and the Challenge of Diversity - Introduction -- Part II: Disciplinary Thoughts -- Linguistic Multimodality - Multimodal Linguistics: A State-of-the-Art Sketch -- Making a Virtue of Material Values: Tactical and Strategic Benefits for Scaling Multimodal Analysis -- Towards a Discipline of Multimodality: Parallels to Mathematics and Linguistics and New Ways Forward -- Part III: Diversity -- Multimodality as Challenge: YouTube Data in Linguistic Corpora -- Class, Culture, and Conflict in the Edwardian Book Inscription: A Multimodal Ethnohistorical Approach -- Cognitive Pathfinders: Highlighting Cross-Modal Interaction and the Orchestration of Memory in Comics -- Audio Description: A Multimodal Practice in Expansion -- Narrative as a Mode of Communication: Comparing TV Format Adaptations with Multimodal and Narratological Approaches -- Learning Science through Generating Multimodal Digital Explanations: Contributions to Multimodality in Educational Practice -- Video Games and Multimodality: Exploring Interfaces and Analyzing Video Screens Using the GeM Model -- Part IV: More Disciplinary Thoughts -- Afterword: Legitimating Multimodality -- List of Contributors -- Index