From Language to Multimodality
New Developments in the Study of Ideational Meaning
1st Edition
Will be published approx. on 31. December 2008
Book
Paperback/Softback
354 pages
978-1-84553-911-5 (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; and, 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
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
1 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84553-911-5 (9781845539115)
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Additional editions
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
Available for download
Persons
Jones: King's College London. Ventola: University of Helsinki
Content
Introduction Part I: Theoretical developments in representation: Experiential issues 1. From process to pattern: methodological considerations in analysing transitivity in text Geoff Thompson, University of Liverpool 2. Using corpus data to have a closer look at the experiential function Lynne Flowerdew, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology 3. A survey of process type classification over difficult cases Mick O'Donnell, Michele Zappavigna-Lee and Casey Whitelaw, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid Part II: Interactions among Ideational, Interpersonal and Textual meanings 4. The grammar of emotion in English and Spanish: a systemic-functional approach Julia Lavid, Universidad Computense de Madrid 5. Construing experience and attitude in discourse: exploring the interaction of the TRANSITIVITY and APPRAISAL systems Claire Scott, Macquarie University 6. Bridging the meta-functions: Tracking participants through taxonomies Nick Moore, Etilasat University College, United Arab Emirates 7. Tactic augmentation and circumstantial augmentation in the creation of field meanings Sridevi Sriniwass, University of Malaya Part III: Applications of the theory to academic contexts 8. Instantial and conventional representations in scientific knowledge construction Ann Montemayor-Borsinger, Instituto Balseiro/Universidad Nacional de Cuyo 9. Mapping Ideational meaning in a corpus of student writing Sheena Gardner, Warwick University 10. The role of the Nominal group in undergraduate academic writing Anne McCabe, Saint Louis University in Madrid, and Christopher Gallagher, International Christian University, Tokyo 11. The expression of Experiential meaning in EFL students' texts: an analysis of secondary school recounts Ana Martin, et al., Universidad Autonoma de Madrid Part IV: Exploring the Ideational function in multi-semiotic representation 12. Inter-Semiotic expansion of Experiential meaning: hierarchical scales and metaphor in mathematics discourse Kay O'Halloran, National University of Singapore 13. Representations of individual and mass: modelling experience through multiple modes in digital art Birgit Huemer, University of Vienna 14. Movies 'reloaded' into commercial reality: representational structures in The MatrixA" trilogy promotional posters Arianna Maoirani, University of Bologna 15. Representing experience: the co-articulation of verbiage and image in multimodal text Dai Fei Yang, University of Western Sydney 16. Decoding meaning in political cartoons Maria Pinar Sanz, University of Castilla-La Mancha