Multimodal Discourse Analysis; Systemic Functional Perspectiv

Description:
Multimodal Discourse Analysis is a comprehensive survey of the ways in which enhanced meaning emerges through the interaction of more than one mode of communication. Different modes of communication covered include: Language. Dynamic and static visual images. Architecture and three-dimensional objects in the realm of material lived-in space, as well as electronic media, film and print. This also includes the study of transition and phase, camera and body movement, typography, layout and the use of colour, and how such choices orientate the viewer to particular readings of the text and context. Multimodal Discourse Analysis will be useful to researchers interested in the application of systemic functional linguistics to media studies, discourse analysis and cognitive linguistics.

Table of Contents:
Introduction; Secton 1 - Three Dimensional Material Objects in Space; 1. Opera Ludentes: The Sydney Opera House at Work and Play - Michael O'Toole; 2. Making History in From Colony to Nation: A Multimodal Analysis of a Museum Exhibtion in Singapore - Alfred Pang Kah Meng; 3. A Semiotic Study of Singapore's Orchard Road and Marriott Hotel - Safeyaton Alias; Section 2 - Electronic Media and Film; 4. Phase and Transition, Type and Instance: Patterns in Media Texts as Seen through a Multimodal Concordancer - Anthony P Baldry; 5. Visual Semiosis in Film - Kay L. O'Halloran; 6. Multisemiotic Mediation in Hypertext - Arthur Kok Kum Chiew; Section 3 - Print Media; 7. The Construal of ideational Meaning in Print Advertisements; 8. The Semiotic Construction of a Package Label: Kellogg's Special K - Lee Siew Ling; 9. Multimodality in a Biology Textbook - Libo Guo