New Discourse on Language

Functional Perspectives on Multimodality, Identity, and Affiliation
Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-1-84706-483-7
Verlag: Continnuum-3PL

Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 587 g

New Discourse on Language addresses the need for innovative analyses of multi-modal discourse, identity and affiliation within functional linguistics. The chapters in this volume are connected by their common underlying theoretical approach, Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), and by their focus on semantic variation (across modalities of communication and between speakers) as well as the negotiation of identity and affiliation.

The analyses focus on a diverse range of texts from very different contexts, using analytic techniques that are based on the latest research in this field. They represent a wealth of exploratory, innovative and challenging perspectives, and are a key contribution to the extension of systemic-functional theory to the analysis of multimodality, identity and affiliation.

The volume is of interest to linguists, applied linguists, semioticians, and communication theorists.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Martin, J. R.

Bednarek, Monika

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Theoretische Linguistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Angewandte Sprachwissenschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Semantik & Pragmatik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: Semantic variation: modelling system, text and affiliation in social semiosis, J R Martin (University of Sydney, Australia)
2. Wrinkling complexity: concepts of identity and affiliation in humour, Naomi Knight (University of Sydney, Australia)
3. Making metre mean: Identity and affiliation in the rap music of Kanye West, David Caldwell (University of Sydney, Australia)
4. Khao naa nung: A multimodal analysis of Thai-language newspaper front pages, John Knox (Macquarie University, Australia), Pattama Patpong (Mahidol University, Thailand) and Yupaporn Piriyasilpa (Rajamangala University of Technology, Khon Kaen, Thailand)
5. Doubling-up: Allusion and bonding in multi-semiotic news stories, Helen Caple (University of Sydney, Australia)
6. Playing with ‘femininity’: Inter-modal analysis of bilingual picture book The Ballad of Mulan, Ping Tian (University of Sydney, Australia)
7. Imagining communities: a multifunctional approach to identity management in texts, Ken Tann (University of Sydney, Australia)
8. Intersemiotic relations as logogenetic patterns: towards the restoration of the time dimension in hypertext description, Sumin Zhao (University of Sydney, Australia)
9. The coupling of gesture and phonology, Zappavigna et al (University of Sydney, Australia)
10. Corpus Linguistics and Systemic Functional Linguistics: Interpersonal meaning, identity and bonding in popular culture, Monika Bednarek (University of Technology, Sydney, Australia)
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Über Autor(innen)

Monika Bednarek is Lecturer of Linguistics at the University of Sydney, Australia.

J. R. Martin is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Sydney, Australia.