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Elleström, L. & Bruhn, J. (2022). ”Ikonicitet” TfL 2008:1: Med författarens kommentar, tretton år senare, och inledning av Jørgen Bruhn. Tidskrift för litteraturvetenskap, 51(3-4), 118-140
Open this publication in new window or tab >>”Ikonicitet” TfL 2008:1: Med författarens kommentar, tretton år senare, och inledning av Jørgen Bruhn
2022 (Swedish)In: Tidskrift för litteraturvetenskap, ISSN 1104-0556, E-ISSN 2001-094X, Vol. 51, no 3-4, p. 118-140Article in journal, Editorial material (Other academic) Published
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Lund university, 2022
National Category
General Literature Studies
Research subject
Humanities, Comparative literature
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-127651 (URN)10.54797/tfl.v51i3-4.2101 (DOI)
Available from: 2024-02-09 Created: 2024-02-09 Last updated: 2024-02-09Bibliographically approved
Elleström, L. (2022). Symbolicity, language, and mediality. Semiotica, 2022(247), 1-32
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Symbolicity, language, and mediality
2022 (English)In: Semiotica, ISSN 0037-1998, E-ISSN 1613-3692, Vol. 2022, no 247, p. 1-32Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

This article demonstrates the broad applicability of the concept of symbol in human communication, beyond but including verbal language. The starting point is Charles Sanders Peirce's understanding of symbolicity as signification grounded on habits. The goal is to be able to conceptualize mediality in general and media interrelations, particularly in relation to symbolicity. Informed by a multimodal view on media, the author provides a systematic overview of symbolicity within the context of communication among human minds structured around two crossing parameters: symbols being limited or widespread among people and symbols not being part of or being part of systems - languages. Based on this overview, I clarify the role of culture in language notions and conceptualize language in relation to mediality. I also suggest a way of more precisely describing similarities and differences between languages and media types, without either conflating or totally separating the two concepts. Finally, I investigate how the dependence of language and media type conceptions on culture affects the idea of intermediality. Together, these investigations and conceptualizations promote a more comprehensive understanding of symbolicity in general and a deeper knowledge of the role of symbolicity in human communication, including verbal language, and intermedial relations involving all kinds of different media types.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Walter de Gruyter, 2022
Keywords
Charles Sanders Peirce, intermediality, language, media types, multi-modality, semiotics, sign systems, symbol
National Category
Media Studies Studies on Film General Literature Studies
Research subject
Humanities
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-115639 (URN)10.1515/sem-2020-0122 (DOI)000827180000001 ()2-s2.0-85135175357 (Scopus ID)2022 (Local ID)2022 (Archive number)2022 (OAI)
Available from: 2022-08-03 Created: 2022-08-03 Last updated: 2023-02-09Bibliographically approved
Elleström, L. (2021). As modalidades das mídias II: Um modelo expandido para compreender as relações intermidiais. Porto Alegre: EDIPUCRS
Open this publication in new window or tab >>As modalidades das mídias II: Um modelo expandido para compreender as relações intermidiais
2021 (Portuguese)Book (Refereed)
Abstract [pt]

TEXTO. IMAGEM. SOM. Ainda que para alguns estudos essa tríade não seja problemática, definições para esses termos são fundamentais para o diálogo entre as diferentes áreas que se interessam pelo significado dos produtos de mídia – expressão de Lars Elleström para textos em suas diferentes manifestações. Como Diretor do Intermedial and Multimodal Studies na Linnæus University, Elleström focaliza justamente nessa perspectiva interdisciplinar da Intermidialidade e em seu potencial para fornecer uma terminologia e uma abordagem capazes de abarcar a enorme diversidade das relações intermidiais. Neste ensaio, ele se concentra no conceito de mídia, modalidade e modo, oferecendo um texto basilar para todos aqueles que não apenas se interessam pelas relações intermidiais, mas também àqueles que estudam a Comunicação em geral, como pesquisadores de Cinema, Jornalismo e Literatura.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Porto Alegre: EDIPUCRS, 2021. p. 166
National Category
Other Humanities Other Humanities not elsewhere specified
Research subject
Humanities
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-107012 (URN)978-65-5623-173-0 (ISBN)
Note

Translation: Beatriz Alves Cerveira, Júlia de Oliveira Rodriguese Juliana de Oliveira Schaidhauer

Available from: 2021-09-16 Created: 2021-09-16 Last updated: 2023-02-09Bibliographically approved
Ou, R. & Elleström, L. (2021). Intermedial Studies: An Interview with Lars Elleström. Foreign Language Studies, 43(2), 15-30
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Intermedial Studies: An Interview with Lars Elleström
2021 (English)In: Foreign Language Studies, ISSN 1003-7519, Vol. 43, no 2, p. 15-30Article in journal (Other academic) Published
Abstract [en]

Lars Elleström, Professor of Comparative Literature at Linnaeus University, Sweden, leads the Linnaeus University’s Centre for Intermedial and Multimodal Studies (IMS) and chairs the board of the International Society for Intermedial Studies (ISIS). He has written and edited several books, including Divine Madness: On Interpreting Literature, Music, and the Visual Arts Ironically (2002), Media Borders, Multimodality and Intermediality (2010), Media Transformation: The Transfer of Media Characteristics among Media (2014), and Transmedial Narration: Narratives and Stories in Different Media (2019). He has also published numerous articles on poetry, gender, irony, semiotics, and in particular intermediality. In this interview, which took place on January 28, 2020 when Ou Rong was a visiting researcher at Linnaeus University, Elleström discussed the necessary expansion of Interart Studies to Intermedial Studies, some key concepts of Intermedial Studies, major approaches to Intermedial Studies, academic evaluations on intermedial scholars, the beneficial interaction between Intermedial Studies and literary studies, and the history of ISIS. At the end of the interview, Elleström wishes to see more Chinese and Asian scholars to participate in the international exchanges of Intermedial Studies.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Wuhan: Central China Normal University, 2021
Keywords
Interart Studies, Intermedial Studies, intermediality, academic evaluation
National Category
Media Studies General Literature Studies
Research subject
Humanities
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-102970 (URN)2-s2.0-85105585497 (Scopus ID)
Available from: 2021-05-05 Created: 2021-05-05 Last updated: 2023-06-21Bibliographically approved
Elleström, L. (2021). Media Transformation: The Transfer of Media Characteristics between Media. In: Mikołaj Deckert, Monika Kocot and Aleksandra Majdzińska-Koczorowicz (Ed.), Moving between Modes: Papers in Intersemiotic Translation (pp. 27-42). Lodz: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Lodzkiego
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Media Transformation: The Transfer of Media Characteristics between Media
2021 (English)In: Moving between Modes: Papers in Intersemiotic Translation / [ed] Mikołaj Deckert, Monika Kocot and Aleksandra Majdzińska-Koczorowicz, Lodz: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Lodzkiego, 2021, p. 27-42Chapter in book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

A broad variety of media traits are transmedial in the sense that they can, to a certain extent, be transferred among media that differ in fundamental ways. This article presents a new theoretical framework for studying media transformation, which should be understood as the transfer of transmedial characteristics. The goal is to explain how meaningful data are changed or corrupted during transfer among various media. First, I launch a few fundamental theoretical distinctions concerning the creation of meaningful media data. The most fundamental distinction is that between mediation and representation. Whereas mediation is the material prerequisite for representation in media, representation should be understood as a semiotic operation, that is, the creation of meaning in the mind. On the basis of this division, I also distinguish between two kinds of media transformation: transmediation and media representation. The article then continues with a section about the transmedial basis. All media have basic and universal (material, sensorial, spatiotemporal and semiotic) properties that are shared to some extent. Furthermore, media form compound characteristics (such as narrativity) that are more or less transmedial, which means that they can be transferred among media to some extent. Finally, a model for analyzing media characteristic transfer is outlined.

 

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Lodz: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Lodzkiego, 2021
Keywords
Intermediality, semiotics, adaptation, transmediation, media representation
National Category
Other Humanities not elsewhere specified
Research subject
Humanities
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-102473 (URN)10.18778/8220-191-8.03 (DOI)978-83-8220-191-8 (ISBN)978-83-8220-192-5 (ISBN)
Available from: 2021-04-28 Created: 2021-04-28 Last updated: 2023-02-09Bibliographically approved
Elleström, L. (2021). Un modelo pluridisciplinar para el estudio de metáfora e imagen a través de la iconicidad intermodal / Bridging the gapbetween image and metaphorthrough cross-modal iconicity: aninterdisciplinary mode. deSignis (35), 173-195
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Un modelo pluridisciplinar para el estudio de metáfora e imagen a través de la iconicidad intermodal / Bridging the gapbetween image and metaphorthrough cross-modal iconicity: aninterdisciplinary mode
2021 (English)In: deSignis, E-ISSN 2462-7259, no 35, p. 173-195Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Our minds are capable of perceiving similarities not only within the same but also across different sensory areas and different cognitive domains. Iconicity is representation based on similarity, and cross-modal iconicity, which is an extremely widespread phenomenon, should be understood as iconicity that crosses the borders of different kinds of material, spatiotemporal, and sensorial modes, and, furthermore, the border between sensory structures and cognitive configurations. For instance, a visual entity may resemble and thus iconically represent something that is auditory or abstractly cognitive. The aim of this semiotic study, substantially based on empirical findings in psychological, cognitive, and neurological research, is to suggest a general theoretical framework for conceptuali- zing cross-modal iconicity and relating different kinds of mono-modal and cross-modal iconicity to each other. Its chief argument is that perception and conception of images and metaphors should be understood as the two extremes in a continuum of iconic repre- sentation where cross-modal iconicity bridges the apparent gap between mono-modal, sensory-based iconicity and cognitive iconicity. It offers an outline of material, spatio- temporal, and sensorial modes and their interrelations; a thorough account of cross-modal iconicity; a conceptual structure for charting degrees of similarity and iconicity with the aid of cross-modality; an array of examples illustrating the continuum of iconicity from image to metaphor; and a brief discussion of the notion of image schema as an explanatory factor for cross-modal iconicity.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
FEDERACION LATINOAMERICANA SEMIOTICA, 2021
Keywords
iconicity, intermodality, image schemas
National Category
General Literature Studies
Research subject
Humanities, Comparative literature
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-110358 (URN)10.35659/designis.i35p173-195 (DOI)000745277500004 ()
Available from: 2022-02-15 Created: 2022-02-15 Last updated: 2023-02-09Bibliographically approved
Elleström, L. (Ed.). (2020). Beyond Media Borders, Volume 1: Intermedial Relations among Multimodal Media. Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Beyond Media Borders, Volume 1: Intermedial Relations among Multimodal Media
2020 (English)Collection (editor) (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

This open access book promotes the idea that all media types are multimodal and that comparing media types, through an intermedial lens, necessarily involves analysing these multimodal traits. The collection includes a series of interconnected articles that illustrate and clarify how the concepts developed in Elleström’s influential article The Modalities of Media: A Model for Understanding Intermedial Relations (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010) can be used for methodical investigation and interpretation of media traits and media interrelations. The authors work with a wide range of old and new media types that are traditionally investigated through limited, media-specific concepts. The publication is a significant contribution to interdisciplinary research, advancing the frontiers of conceptual as well as practical understanding of media interrelations. This is the first of two volumes. It contains Elleström’s revised article and six other contributions focusing especially on media integration: how media products and media types are combined and merged in various ways.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. p. 277
Keywords
Intermediality, Transmediality, Multimodality, Semiotics, Media modalities, Transmediation, Hypermediality
National Category
Other Humanities
Research subject
Humanities
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-98582 (URN)10.1007/978-3-030-49679-1 (DOI)2-s2.0-85151225747 (Scopus ID)978-3-030-49678-4 (ISBN)978-3-030-49679-1 (ISBN)
Available from: 2020-10-19 Created: 2020-10-19 Last updated: 2023-08-16Bibliographically approved
Elleström, L. (Ed.). (2020). Beyond Media Borders, Volume 2: Intermedial Relations among Multimodal Media. Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Beyond Media Borders, Volume 2: Intermedial Relations among Multimodal Media
2020 (English)Collection (editor) (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

This open access book promotes the idea that all media types are multimodal and that comparing media types, through an intermedial lens, necessarily involves analysing these multimodal traits. The collection includes a series of interconnected articles that illustrate and clarify how the concepts developed in Elleström’s influential article The Modalities of Media: A Model for Understanding Intermedial Relations (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010) can be used for methodical investigation and interpretation of media traits and media interrelations. The authors work with a wide range of old and new media types that are traditionally investigated through limited, media-specific concepts. The publication is a significant contribution to interdisciplinary research, advancing the frontiers of conceptual as well as practical understanding of media interrelations. This is the second of two volumes. It contains a concluding article by Elleström and seven contributions concentrated on the issue of media transformations: how media characteristics are transferred and transfigured among various media products and media types.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. p. 272
Keywords
Intermediality, Transmediality, Multimodality Semiotics, Media modalities, Transmediation, Hypermediality
National Category
Other Humanities
Research subject
Humanities
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-98583 (URN)10.1007/978-3-030-49683-8 (DOI)2-s2.0-85151229762 (Scopus ID)978-3-030-49682-1 (ISBN)978-3-030-49683-8 (ISBN)
Available from: 2020-10-19 Created: 2020-10-19 Last updated: 2023-08-16Bibliographically approved
Elleström, L., Fusillo, M. & Petricola, M. (2020). "Everything is intermedial": A Conversation with Lars Elleström. Between, 10(20), 27-45
Open this publication in new window or tab >>"Everything is intermedial": A Conversation with Lars Elleström
2020 (English)In: Between, ISSN 2039-6597, Vol. 10, no 20, p. 20p. 27-45Article in journal (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.)) Published
Abstract [en]

Lars Elleström needs no introduction to intermediality and comparative literature scholars. Massimo Fusillo and Mattia Petricola had a conversation with him just a few weeks before the publication of his new, major theoretical work. The conversation discusses the evolution of Elleström’s theory over the last decade, his formation and influences, Peirce’s semiotics, the history of intermediality, and the notion of media literacy.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
UNICApress, 2020. p. 20
Keywords
Intermediality, Transmediality, Semiotics, Interart studies, Total Work of Art, Truthfulness, Narrative Theory
National Category
Other Humanities
Research subject
Humanities
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-99193 (URN)10.13125/2039-6597/4443 (DOI)
Available from: 2020-12-02 Created: 2020-12-02 Last updated: 2023-02-09Bibliographically approved
Salmose, N. & Elleström, L. (2020). Foreword. In: Niklas Salmose, Lars Elleström (Ed.), Transmediations: Communication Across Media Borders (pp. xiii-xvi). New York: Routledge
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Foreword
2020 (English)In: Transmediations: Communication Across Media Borders / [ed] Niklas Salmose, Lars Elleström, New York: Routledge, 2020, p. xiii-xviChapter in book (Other academic)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
New York: Routledge, 2020
Series
Routledge Studies in Multimodality
Keywords
transmediation, intermediality, transformation, adaption, ekphrasis
National Category
General Literature Studies
Research subject
Humanities, Comparative literature
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-90422 (URN)000527102100001 ()2-s2.0-85105154882 (Scopus ID)9780367244866 (ISBN)9780429282775 (ISBN)
Available from: 2019-12-08 Created: 2019-12-08 Last updated: 2023-02-09Bibliographically approved
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