Joshua Han
Position: Researcher School/office: School of Music, Theatre and ArtEmail: am9zaHVhLmhhbjtvcnUuc2U=
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About Joshua Han
Joshua Han is a researcher in Musicology. He has undertaken cross-disciplinary research across a range of fields and areas including linguistics, social semiotics, multimodality, critical discourse analysis, musicology and social media. He was awarded his PhD in music semiotics from the University of New South Wales in 2022. He has teaching experience in visual communication and social media studies, and has also worked extensively as a researcher in discourse analysis.
Joshua’s current research project is entitled “Decolonising Music Theory” and is funded by Wenner-Gren Foundations. The aim of this project is to critically examine and work towards challenging the hegemonic position that western classical music theory holds in the field of music theory. Further, it investigates alternative music theoretical perspectives from diverse musical practices. Methods from critical discourse analysis and multimodal social semiotics are applied and applications of the research findings to music education are also investigated.
Research groups
Publications
Articles in journals
- Han, J. & Zappavigna, M. (2024). Multimodal rhythm in TikTok videos: Exploring a recontextualization of the Gillard ‘misogyny speech’. Multimodality & Society, 4 (1), 58-79. [BibTeX]
Articles, book reviews
- Han, J. (2022). Book review: Kinesemiotics: Modelling How Choreographed Movement Means in Space. Visual Communication. [BibTeX]
Chapters in books
- van Leeuwen, T. & Han, J. (2023). Evaluation and discourse analysis. In: The Routledge Handbook of Discourse Analysis. London: Routledge. [BibTeX]
Conference papers
- Han, J. (2023). Multimodal analysis of music expression gesture in music educational contexts. Paper presented at Den nittonde nordiska konferensen om systemisk-funktionell lingvistik och socialsemiotik (NSFL 19), Örebro Universitet, Örebro, November 16-17, 2023. [BibTeX]
- Han, J. (2022). Kinaesthetic Metaphors of (non-)directedness in Music. Paper presented at Den nordiske konferansen for systemisk-funksjonell lingvistikk og sosialsemiotikk (NSFL), Høgskolen i Østfold, Halden, October 27-28, 2022. [BibTeX]
- Han, J. (2019). A social semiotic account of music-movement correspondences. Paper presented at The 46th International Systemic Functional Congress (ISFC46), Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago, July 23-27, 2019. [BibTeX]
- Han, J. (2019). A social semiotic analysis of musical expression gesture. Paper presented at The Australian Systemic Functional Linguistics Conference (ASFLA 2019), University of Sydney, October 2-4, 2019. [BibTeX]
- Han, J. (2019). A social semiotic approach to music-movement correspondences. Paper presented at The Multimodal Research 2019 – International Conference, Auckland University of Technology Multimodal Resarch Centre, Auckland, December 8-11, 2019. [BibTeX]
- Han, J. (2019). Kinaesthetic Metaphors of (non-)directedness in Music. Paper presented at The Multimodal Research 2019 – International Conference, Auckland University of Technology Multimodal Research Centre, Auckland, December 8-11, 2019. [BibTeX]
- Han, J. (2018). Towards the Metafunctional Configurations of Movement and Music. Paper presented at The 9th International Conference on Multimodality (9ICOM), Syddansk Universitet, Odense, August 15-17, 2018. [BibTeX]
Doctoral theses, monographs
- Han, J. (2021). A social semiotic account of music-movement correspondences. (Doctoral dissertation). Sydney: UNSW. [BibTeX]