Semiotic Margins
Meaning in Multimodalities
Dr Shoshana Dreyfus editor Dr Susan Hood editor Dr Maree Stenglin editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Continuum Publishing Corporation
Published:14th Feb '11
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A systemic functional linguistics study analysing how a wide range of modalities, other than language, make and communicate meaning.
A systemic functional linguistics study that analyses how a wide range of modalities, other than language, make and communicate meaning. It analyses the meaning making potential of not only language, but modalities like laughter, music, colour, and architectural spaces.Semiotic Margins analyses the meaning making potential of not only language, but modalities like laughter, music, colour, and architectural spaces. By examiningresources often positioned on the side-line of mainstream semiotic accounts, this study raises the question of what counts as part of language and communication and why. Beginning with the more established nonverbal resources of communication, four major themes of modalities of meaning are covered. The investigation of music and space looks at how semiotic systems in classical music interact. Using children's books, the relationship between images and verbal meaning is then explored, presenting implications for student literacy as well as a methodology for supporting children excluded from mainstream literary practices. Finally new approaches to transcribing representations in screen-based technologies are presentedthrough an examination of television advertisements. Semiotic Margins will appealtolinguists and semioticians wishing to pursue research in systemic functional linguistics and multimodal discourse analysis.
ISBN: 9781441173225
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 574g
288 pages