From Language to Multimodality
New Developments in the Study of Ideational Meaning
1st Edition
Will be published approx. on 31. December 2008
Book
Hardback
354 pages
978-1-84553-347-2 (ISBN)
Description
This book shares the recent debates by systemic functional linguistics and other linguistic forums. Its principal focus is on how we use language to make meaning of the world, on how the systems and structures of the ideational function of language represent the realisation of our experiences of the world around us. The volume captures the endeavours of scholars working in different contexts, disciplines and languages around the world. Their contributions explore what underlies experiential and logical meaning-making through specific analyses of recently-created, contextually diverse, single texts or collections of texts, from mono- to multimodal texts.The issues addressed are: layers of meaning through the transitivity system; agency and subjectivity; what kinds of participants and circumstances are associated with various processes and how these vary across languages; new ways of researching and capturing the interaction of the experiential function with the other functions of language - interpersonal, textual and logical - in communicative contexts; how multimodality and new ways of modelling experience semiotically influence the work of linguists, linguistic description and application. The book displays the dynamic dialogue on theoretical and applied interests of scholars interested in functional linguistics and working in a wide range of academic contexts. At post-graduate level advanced students will benefit from new perspectives, the innovative thinking and research accounts that make up the collection. The papers highlight the flexibility of systemic functional linguistic approach and exemplify how it can offer deeper and further insights into potential ways of exploring meaning-making by drawing on recent seminal developments in ideation.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 28 mm
Weight
680 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84553-347-2 (9781845533472)
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Carys Jones | Eija Ventola
From Language to Multimodality
New Developments in the Study of Ideational Meaning
E-Book
12/2008
1st Edition
Equinox Publishing Ltd
€43.99
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Persons
Jones: King's College London. Ventola: University of Helsinki
Content
IntroductionPart I: Theoretical developments in representation: Experiential issues1. From process to pattern: methodological considerations in analysing transitivity in textGeoff Thompson, University of Liverpool2. Using corpus data to have a closer look at the experiential functionLynne Flowerdew, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology3. A survey of process type classification over difficult casesMick O'Donnell, Michele Zappavigna-Lee and Casey Whitelaw, Universidad Autonoma de MadridPart II: Interactions among Ideational, Interpersonal and Textual meanings4. The grammar of emotion in English and Spanish: a systemic-functional approachJulia Lavid, Universidad Computense de Madrid5. Construing experience and attitude in discourse: exploring the interaction of the TRANSITIVITY and APPRAISAL systemsClaire Scott, Macquarie University6. Bridging the meta-functions: Tracking participants through taxonomiesNick Moore, Etilasat University College, United Arab Emirates7. Tactic augmentation and circumstantial augmentation in the creation of field meaningsSridevi Sriniwass, University of MalayaPart III: Applications of the theory to academic contexts8. Instantial and conventional representations in scientific knowledge constructionAnn Montemayor-Borsinger, Universidad de Buenos Aires9. Mapping Ideational meaning in a corpus of student writingSheena Gardner, Warwick University10. The role of the Nominal group in undergraduate academic writingAnne McCabe and Christopher Gallagher, Saint Louis University in Madrid11. The expression of Experiential meaning in EFL students' texts: an analysis of secondary school recountsAna Martin, et al., Universidad Autonoma de MadridPart IV: Exploring the Ideational function in multi-semiotic representation12. Inter-Semiotic expansion of Experiential meaning: hierarchical scales and metaphor in mathematics discourseKay O'Halloran, National University of Singapore13. Representations of individual and mass: modelling experience through multiple modes in digital artBirgit Huemer, University of Vienna14. Movies 'reloaded' into commercial reality: representational structures in "The Matrix" trilogy promotional postersArianna Maoirani, University of Bologna15. Representing experience: the co-articulation of verbiage and image in multimodal textDai Fei Yang, University of Western Sydney16. Decoding meaning in political cartoonsMaria Pinar Sanz, University of Castilla-La Mancha