The World Told and the World Shown

MARAiA CRISTINA ASTORGA is an Associate Professor, Faculty of Humanities, National University of Rio Cuarto, Argentina ELISABETH EL REFAIE is a Lecturer in Communication, Centre for Language and Communication Research, Cardiff University, UK CHARLES FORCEVILLE is Associate Professor, Media Studies Department, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands ANNA HOPEARUOHO, a former student of the Department of English, University of Helsinki, Finland, is currently working for a Finnish company, Wartsila Corporation VICTOR LIM FEI is a Research Scholar at the Multimodal Analysis Lab, Interactive Digital Media Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore ALISON LOVE is an Associate Professor of English Language and Linguistics, National University of Lesotho, Lesotho ARIANNA MAIORANI is a Lecturer in Linguistics at Loughborough University, UK CHRISTIAN MATTHIESSEN is a Chair Professor of Linguistics and Head of the Department of English, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong KAY O'HALLORAN is Director of the Multimodal Analysis Lab, Interactive and Digital Media Institute (IDMI) and Associate Professor, Department of English Language and Literature, National University of Singapore, Singapore GIULIO PAGANI, Department of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University, UK MARAiA JESA'S PINAR SANZ is a Lecturer in Linguistics and Discourse analysis, University of Castilla - La Mancha, Spain MAREE STENGLIN is a Lecturer in Literacy and Learning, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Sydney, Australia SABINE TAN is a Research Scholar in Language Studies, National University of Singapore, Singapore MARTIN THOMAS works at the Centre for Translation Studies at the University of Leeds, UK KATHRYN TUCKWELL is a researcher at the Centre for Language in Social Life, Macquarie University, Australia

Positioned within the field of linguistics and multisemiotic discourse analysis, the theme of this book is the multifaceted interaction between text and image in different discourse genres, and it offers critical views on how we talk and show our experience of the world around us.Positioned within the field of linguistics and multisemiotic discourse analysis, the theme of this book is the multifaceted interaction between text and image in different discourse genres, and it offers critical views on how we talk and show our experience of the world around us.