Meaning making in text : multimodal and multilingual functional perspectives /: multimodal and multilingual functional perspectives. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Sonja Starc, University of Primorska, Slovenia ; Carys Jones, King's College, University of London, UK ; Arianna Maiorani, Loughborough University, UK.
• Editors: Starc, Sonja, 1954-; Jones, Carys; Maiorani, Arianna
• Contents: 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.
• Publisher Details: New York : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 302.2/2; Education; Semiotics; Multilingual communication; Modality (Linguistics); Functionalism (Linguistics); Language and languages; Sociolinguistics; Translating and interpreting; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Sociolinguistics; Functionalism (Linguistics); Modality (Linguistics); Multilingual communication; Semiotics; PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology; Language Arts & Disciplines -- Linguistics -- General; Education -- Language Experience Approach; Language Arts & Disciplines -- Translating & Interpreting; Language Arts & Disciplines -- Communication Studies; Language: history & general works; Language teaching & learning (other than ELT); Sociolinguistics; Translation & interpretation; Communication studies; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137477309
• Related ISBNs: 113747730X; 9781349502110
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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