multimodal and multilingual functional perspectives
First Statement of Responsibility
edited by Sonja Starc, Carys Jones, Arianna Maiorani.
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Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Basingstoke
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Palgrave Macmillan
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2015
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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(320 pages) : 37 figures, 41 2 diagrames
GENERAL NOTES
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Electronic book text.;Epublication based on: 9781137477293.
CONTENTS NOTE
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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.
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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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).
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Modality (Linguistics)
Multilingual communication.
Semiotics.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION
Class number
P99
Book number
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E358
2015
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
edited by Sonja Starc, Carys Jones, Arianna Maiorani.