Jul 08
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhbook publication
Title: Meaning Making in Text
Subtitle: Multimodal and Multilingual Functional Perspectives
Publication Year: 2015
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
http://www.palgrave.com
Book URL: http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/?K=9781137477293
Author: Sonja Starc
Author: Carys Jones
Author: Arianna Maiorani
Hardback: ISBN: 9781137477293 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 63.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9781137477293 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 95.00
Abstract:
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.
Jul 08
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhbook publication
Title: Multimodality in Writing
Subtitle: The State of the Art in Theory, Methodology and Pedagogy
Series Title: Studies in Writing
Publication Year: 2015
Publisher: Brill
http://www.brill.com
Book URL: http://www.brill.com/products/book/multimodality-writing
Editor: Arlene Archer
Editor: Esther Breuer
Hardback: ISBN: 9789004296572 Pages: 332 Price: Europe EURO 115
Hardback: ISBN: 9789004296572 Pages: 332 Price: U.S. $ 149
Abstract:
Multimodality in Writing attempts to generate and apply new theories, disciplines and methods to account for semiotic processes in texts and during text production. It thus showcases new directions in multimodal research and theorizing writing practices from a multimodal perspective. It explores texts, producers of texts, and readers of texts. It also focuses on teaching multimodal text production and writing pedagogy from different domains and disciplines, such as rhetoric and writing composition, architecture, mathematics, film-making, science and the newsroom.
Multimodality in Writing explores the kinds of methodological approaches that can augment social semiotic approaches to analyzing and teaching writing, including rhetoric, Systemic Functional Linguistics, ethnographic approaches, and genre pedagogy. Much of the research shows how the regularities of modes and interest of sign makers are socially shaped to realize convention. Because of this, the approaches are strongly underpinned by social and cultural theories of representation and communication.
Jul 02
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhbook publication
Title: Interpersonal Prominence and International Presence
Subtitle: Implicitness Constructed and Translated in Diplomatic Discourse
Publication Year: 2015
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
http://www.cambridgescholars.com/
Book URL: http://www.cambridgescholars.com/interpersonal-prominence-and-international-presence
Author: Junfeng Zhang
Hardback: ISBN: 9781443877008 Pages: 195 Price: U.K. £ 41.99
Hardback: ISBN: 9781443877008 Pages: 195 Price: U.S. $ 71.99
Abstract:
Interpersonal Prominence and International Presence focuses on the construction and translation of diplomatic discourse (DD) for conveying a message suggesting uncertainty and capable of being read in a number of ways. After a summary and an analysis of its characteristics, the book provides a definition of DD, showing that implicit DD is marked with an interpersonal prominence among its three meta-functions from the perspective of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL). The book then gives a definition of implicitness, proposes a lexical model and identifies Lexicogrammatical Metaphor (LGM) as the linguistic mechanism of generating implicitness in DD via intralingual translation, and if necessary, interlingual translation. After this, a case study of DD generated around the 2001 Sino-US Air Collision incident is provided, which is used to establish a descriptive and explanatory three-dimensional model that is capable of providing textual accounts of translational treatments in intralingually configuring implicitness in DD and interlingually re-expressing it. This model consists of three components, namely linguistic composition, interactional dynamics, and perlocutionary imaging. Among them, perlocutionary imaging prevails over the other two in constructing and translating implicitness in DD.
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