Reading Images for Knowledge Building

Reviews / Votes

"The book represents a substantial contribution to bothsemiotics and science education. Its comprehensive framework for analysing the complexity and recognizability of infographics provides valuable insights into how images organize the complexity and abstraction of meaning. Furthermore, it offers practical guidance for educators to facilitate science teaching through the use of infographics. This book is thus highly recommended for researchers in semiotics and science education, and educators seeking effective methods to utilize infographics in science instruction." - Zhigang Yu, Beijing Institute of Technology, Visual Communication

"...the book is undoubtedly of particular benefit to researchers in semiotics who are concerned with multimodality in academic discourse, researchers in literacy education and science education who are concerned with empirical resources at stake for knowledge building, and school science teachers who are concerned with an explicit metalanguage for expounding on infographics in pedagogical practice." - Ying Hua, Shanghai Dianji University, Language and Education

"Martin and Unsworth's book is an informative, engaging and well-structured
volume solely devoted to analyzing infographics for knowledge building in school science from the systemic functional semiotic perspective. It is such a comprehensive and meticulous work that makes a significant contribution to science pedagogy, multimodal literacy as well as Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL). Theoretically rooted in social semiotics and
systemic functional linguistics, the authors' framework for analyzing infographics is thorough and accessible, offering valuable insights into the complexity and recognizability of scientific infographics." - Yanxiu Li, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Social Semiotics