Perspectives on Multimodality

1. Introduction (by Ventola, Eija); 2. Part I - Multimodal Issues; 3. In between Modes: Language and Image in Printed Media (by Stockl, Hartmut); 4. Modelling Multiple Semiotic Systems: The Case of Gesture and Speech (by Muntigl, Peter); 5. Problematising 'Semiotic Resource' (by Fei, Victor Lim); 6. Multimodality and Empiricism: Preparing for a Corpus-based Approach to the Study of Multimodal Meaning-making (by Bateman, John A.); 7. Part II - Analyses and Applications; 8. On the Effectiveness of Mathematics (by O'Halloran, Kay); 9. Multimodality in Language Teaching CD-ROMs (by Kaltenbacher, Martin); 10. The Multiple Modes of Dirty Dancing: A Cultural Studies Approach to Multimodal Discourse Analysis (by Rheindorf, Markus); 11. Multimodal Text Analysis and Subtitling (by Taylor, Christopher); 12. Multimodality in the Translation of Humour in Comics (by Kaindl, Klaus); 13. Multimodality in Operation: Language and Picture in a Museum (by Hofinger, Andrea); 14. Drawing on Theories of Inter-semiotic Layering to Analyse Multimodality in Medical Self-Counselling Texts and Hypertexts (by Eckkrammer, Eva Martha); 15. On the Multimodality of Interpreting in Medical Briefings for Informed Consent: Using Diagrams to Impart Knowledge (by Buhrig, Kristin); 16. Index