<span><p>This collection explores the mediation of a wide range of processes, texts, and practices in contemporary digital environments through the lens of a multimodal theory of communication.</p> <p>Bringing together contributions from renowned scholars in the field, the book builds on the notion
Meaning Making in Text: Multimodal and Multilingual Functional Perspectives
β Scribed by Sonja Starc, Carys Jones, Arianna Maiorani (eds.)
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Year
- 2015
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 315
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Introduction....Pages 1-4
Front Matter....Pages 5-5
Thematic Structure and Progression in Some Late Seventeenth-Century French Texts....Pages 7-30
Multifunctional Roles of the First Person Singular in Academic Texts....Pages 31-50
The Position of Connectors in Slovene and Croatian Student Academic Writing: a Corpus-Based Approach....Pages 51-71
Aspects of Nominalization from a Cognitive Perspective....Pages 72-91
Exploring Language in Verbal Art: a Case Study in K. Mansfieldβs βBlissβ....Pages 92-108
Front Matter....Pages 109-109
Positioning the Reader in a Polyfunctional Text: Attitude and Reading Path in a Modern Swedish Handbook on Gardening....Pages 111-133
Revisiting Hitchcock: an Alternative Multimodal Reading of Interactive Patterns in Psycho ....Pages 134-151
Meaning in Images: Complexity and Variation across Cultures....Pages 152-169
Language as Access: Transposition and Translation of Audiovisual Texts as a Vehicle of Meaning and a Gateway to Understanding....Pages 170-193
Front Matter....Pages 195-195
A Multimodal Analysis of Genres of Economics Representation in EAP/ESP....Pages 197-222
Decoding Multimodal Text by Untrained Readers: a Message for Mother Tongue Pedagogy....Pages 223-244
Information Flow in Written Text and the Writer-Reader Relationship....Pages 245-264
Scaffolding Semogenesis: Designing Teacher/Student Interactions for Face-to-Face and Online Learning....Pages 265-298
Back Matter....Pages 299-302
β¦ Subjects
Language Teaching; Linguistics, general; Language Education; Sociolinguistics; Translation; Communication Studies
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