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continuumbooks.com>Title: Multimodal Discourse Analysis Subtitle: Systemic Functional Perspectives Series Title: Open Linguistics Series Publication Year: 2004 Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd http://www.continuumbooks.com Editor: Kay L O'Halloran, National University of Singapore Hardback: ISBN: 0826472567, Pages: 256, Price: U.K. � 75.00 Abstract: This book brings together cutting-edge research on multimodal texts and the 'discourses' generated through the interaction of two or more semiotic modes of communication; for example language, dynamic and static visual images, architecture and three-dimensional objects. This includes the study of transition and phase, camera and body movement, typography and how such choices orientate the viewer to particular readings of the text and context. The contributors collected within this volume use the systemic functional approach to present frameworks, which are used to analyze how meaning is generated within a series of case studies. The result is a comprehensive survey of the ways in which enhanced meaning emerges through the interaction of more than one mode of communication. Multimodal Discourse Analysis will be useful to researchers interested in the application of systemic functional linguistics to media studies, discourse analysis and coginitive linguistics. Lingfield(s): Discourse Analysis Written In: English (Language Code: ENG) See this book announcement on our website: http://linguistlist.org/get-book.html?BookID=10092.Mail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue