multimodal and multilingual functional perspectives
edited by Sonja Starc, Carys Jones, Arianna Maiorani.
Basingstoke
Palgrave Macmillan
2015
(320 pages) : 37 figures, 41 2 diagrames
Electronic book text.;Epublication based on: 9781137477293.
Introduction --;Sonja Starc, Carys Jones and Arianna Maiorani PART I: PERSPECTIVES ON LANGUAGE IN TEXT 1. Thematic Structure and Progression in some Late Seventeenth Century Texts --;David Banks 2. Multifunctional Roles of the First Person in Academic Texts --;Toini Rahtu 3. The Position of Connectors in Slovene and Croatian Linguistic Discourse: a Corpus Based Approach --;Tatjana Balazic Bulc and Vijko Gorjanc 4. Nominalization as a Discursive Phenomenon from the Perspective of Text Cognition --;Katja Plemenitas 5. Exploring Language in Verbal Art: a Case Study in K. Mansfield's 'Bliss' --;Adriana Pagano and Annabelle Lukin PART II: DEVELOPMENTS IN MULTIMODAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS 6. Positioning the Reader in a Polyfunctional Text: Attitude and Reading Path In a Modern Swedish Handbook on Gardening --;Andreas Nord 7. Revisiting Hitchcock: An Alternative Multimodal Reading of Interactive Patterns in 'Psycho' --;Arianna Maiorani 8. Meaning in Images: Complexity and Variation across Cultures --;Claudia Stoian 9. Language as Access: Transposition and Translation of Audiovisual Text as a Vehicle of Meaning and a Gateway to Understanding --;Christopher Taylor PART III: APPLICATIONS TO PEDAGOGY 10 . Multimodal Analysis of Genres of Economic Representation in EAP/ESP --;Mersini Karagevrekis 11. Decoding Multimodal Text by Untrained Readers: A Message for Mother Tongue Pedagogy --;Sonja Starc 12. Information Flow in Written Text and the Writer-reader Relationship --;Carys Jones 13. Scaffolding Semogenesis: Designing Teacher/Student Interaction for Face-to-Face and On-line Learning --;James R. Martin and S. Dreyfus.
Meaning Making in Text presents new insights into forms of communication in a range of contexts: cultural, linguistic, multimodal and educational. The thirteen chapters are all linked theoretically by advances in Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL).
Modality (Linguistics)
Multilingual communication.
Semiotics.
P99
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E358
2015
edited by Sonja Starc, Carys Jones, Arianna Maiorani.