Rowan Mackay
List of John Benjamins publications in which Rowan Mackay is involved.
Article
2013 Chapter 11. Multimodal legitimation: Looking at and listening to Obama’s ads Analyzing Genres in Political Communication: Theory and practice, Cap, Piotr and Urszula Okulska (eds.), pp. 345–377 | Article
In this paper I look at legitimation in multimodal texts. By focusing first upon genre analysis from a social semiotic perspective, and highlighting the complications it presents for genre identification, I lay a conceptual framework for looking at the specific genre of political spot ads.… read more
