Meaning Making in Text Multimodal and Multilingual Functional Perspectives [Hardcover]

Meaning Making in Text presents new insights into forms of communication in a range of contexts: cultural, linguistic, multimodal and educational. The thirteen chapters are all linked theoretically by advances in Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL).Introduction; Sonja Starc, Carys Jones and Arianna Maiorani PART I: PERSPECTIVES ON LANGUAGE IN TEXT 1. Thematic Structure and Progression in some Late Seventeenth Century Texts; David Banks 2. Multifunctional Roles of the First Person in Academic Texts; Toini Rahtu 3. The Position of Connectors in Slovene and Croatian Linguistic Discourse: a Corpus Based Approach; Tatjana Balazic Bulc and Vijko Gorjanc 4. Nominalization as a Discursive Phenomenon from the Perspective of Text Cognition; Katja Plemenitas 5. Exploring Language in Verbal Art: a Case Study in K. Mansfield's 'Bliss'; Adriana Pagano and Annabelle Lukin PART II: DEVELOPMENTS IN MULTIMODAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS 6. Positioning the Reader in a Polyfunctional Text: Attitude and Reading Path In a Modern Swedish Handbook on Gardening; Andreas Nord 7. Revisiting Hitchcock: An Alternative Multimodal Reading of Interactive Patterns in 'Psycho'; Arianna Maiorani 8. Meaning in Images: Complexity and Variation across Cultures; Claudia Stoian 9. Language as Access: Transposition and Translation of Audiovisual Text as a Vehicle of Meaning and a Gateway to Understanding; Christopher Taylor PART III: APPLICATIONS TO PEDAGOGY 10 . Multimodal Analysis of Genres of Economic Representation in EAP/ESP; Mersini Karagevrekis 11. Decoding Multimodal Text by Untrained Readers: A Message for Mother Tongue Pedagogy; Sonja Starc 12. Information Flow in Written Text and the Writer-reader Relationship; Carys Jones 13. Scaffolding Semogenesis: Designing Teacher/Student Interaction for Face-to-Face and On-line Learning; James R. Martin and S.Dreyfus

Sonja Starc is Associate Professor for the Slovene Language at the University of Primorska, Slovenia. Previously she has lSØ