Meaning making in text
Subtitle: multimodal and multilingual functional perspectives
By: edited by Sonja Starc, University of Primorska, Slovenia ; Carys Jones, King's College, University of London, UK ; Arianna Maiorani, Loughborough University, UK
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 302
ISBN-13: 9781137477293
Subjects: Semiotics; Multilingual communication; Modality (Linguistics); Functionalism (Linguistics); LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics
Description: "Meaning Making in Text extends the notion of text as a vehicle for ever-changing and complex forms of communication. Based on recent developments in Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), it proposes a range of analytical tools for accessing a variety of discourses in different contexts. The book presents studies of linguistic and multimodal phenomena concerning English and minority European languages that, until now, have received very limited attention, and offers proposals for analysing text in terms of their application to pedagogy. The contributors demonstrate the increasingly rich potential of SFL to provide a refreshingly powerful account of human nature and the ways it can be applied that go well beyond those to do with language itself"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Introduction; Sonja Starc, Carys Jones and Arianna Maiorani; title: PART I: PERSPECTIVES ON LANGUAGE IN TEXT; title: 1. Thematic Structure and Progression in some Late Seventeenth Century Texts; David Banks; title: 2. Multifunctional Roles of the First Person in Academic Texts; Toini Rahtu; title: 3. The Position of Connectors in Slovene and Croatian Linguistic Discourse: a Corpus Based Approach; Tatjana Balazic Bulc and Vijko Gorjanc; title: 4. Nominalization as a Discursive Phenomenon from the Perspective of Text Cognition; Katja Plemenitas; title: 5. Exploring Language in Verbal Art: a Case Study in K. Mansfield's 'Bliss'; Adriana Pagano and Annabelle Lukin; title: PART II: DEVELOPMENTS IN MULTIMODAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS; title: 6. Positioning the Reader in a Polyfunctional Text: Attitude and Reading Path In a Modern Swedish Handbook on Gardening; Andreas Nord; title: 7. Revisiting Hitchcock: An Alternative Multimodal Reading of Interactive Patterns in 'Psycho'; Arianna Maiorani; title: 8. Meaning in Images: Complexity and Variation across Cultures; Claudia Stoian; title: 9. Language as Access: Transposition and Translation of Audiovisual Text as a Vehicle of Meaning and a Gateway to Understanding; Christopher Taylor; title: PART III: APPLICATIONS TO PEDAGOGY; title: 10. Multimodal Analysis of Genres of Economic Representation in EAP/ESP; Mersini Karagevrekis; title: 11. Decoding Multimodal Text by Untrained Readers: A Message for Mother Tongue Pedagogy; Sonja Starc; title: 12. Information Flow in Written Text and the Writer-reader Relationship; Carys Jones; title: 13. Scaffolding Semogenesis: Designing Teacher/Student Interaction for Face-to-Face and On-line Learning; James R. Martin and S.Dreyfus.