New Discourse on Language
Functional Perspectives on Multimodality, Identity, and Affiliation
Published on 29. December 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
280 pages
978-1-4411-5322-7 (ISBN)
Description
New Discourse on Language addresses the need for innovative analyses of multi-modal discourse, identity and affiliation within functional linguistics. The chapters in this volume are connected by their common underlying theoretical approach, Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), and by their focus on semantic variation (across modalities of communication and between speakers) as well as the negotiation of identity and affiliation. The analyses focus on a diverse range of texts from very different contexts, using analytic techniques that are based on the latest research in this field. They represent a wealth of exploratory, innovative and challenging perspectives, and are a key contribution to the extension of systemic-functional theory to the analysis of multimodality, identity and affiliation. The volume is of interest to linguists, applied linguists, semioticians, and communication theorists.
Reviews / Votes
"This book, by a group of highly talented young scholars, gives us a glimpse of what multimodal discourse analysis might come to look like in the first half of the 21st century." - Professor Theo van Leeuwen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Bednarek's volume is a welcome corpus-assisted contribution to the study of television from which scholars and students of linguistics, media and cultural studies will much benefit. Informative, clear and subtle it is a very pleasant read for the corpus neophyte and for the corpus linguist alike. Applied LinguisticsMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
430 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4411-5322-7 (9781441153227)
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Additional editions
Monika Bednarek | J. R. Martin
New Discourse on Language
Functional Perspectives on Multimodality, Identity, and Affiliation
E-Book
10/2011
1st Edition
Bloomsbury Continuum
€42.99
Available for download
Monika Bednarek | J. R. Martin
New Discourse on Language
Functional Perspectives on Multimodality, Identity, and Affiliation
E-Book
12/2009
1st Edition
Continuum Publishing Corporation
€42.99
Available for download
Persons
J. R. Martin is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Sydney, Australia. Monika Bednarek is a Lecturer in Linguistics at the University of Sydney, Australia.
Content
Notes on Contributors; 1. Semantic Variation: Modelling System, Text and Affiliation in Social Semiosis J. R. Martin; 2. Wrinkling Complexity: Concepts of Identity and Affiliation in Humour Naomi Knight; 3. Making Metre Mean: Identity and Affiliation in the Rap Music of Kanye West David Caldwell; 4. Khao naa nung: A Multimodal Analysis of Thai-language Newspaper Front Pages John Knox, Pattama Patpong and Yupaporn Piriyasilpa; 5. Doubling-up: Allusion and Bonding in Multisemiotic News Stories Helen Caple; 6. Playing with 'femininity': An Inter-modal Analysis of Bilingual picture book The Ballad of Mulan Ping Tian; 7. Imagining Communities: A Multifunctional Approach to Identity Management in texts Ken Tann; 8. Intersemiotic Relations as Logogenetic Patterns: Towards the Restoration of the Time Dimension in Hypertext Description Sumin Zhao; 9. The Coupling of Gesture and Phonology Michele Zappavigna, Chris Cleirigh, Paul Dwyer and JR. Martin; 10. Corpus Linguistics and Systemic Functional Linguistics: Interpersonal meaning, Identity and Bonding in Popular Culture Monika Bednarek; Index.