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.
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