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The World Told and the World Shown

Multisemiotic Issues

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
  2. Introduction. The World Told and the World Shown: Multisemiotic Issues

    1. Introduction. The World Told and the World Shown: Multisemiotic Issues

      • Eija Ventola, Arsenio Jesús Moya Guijarro
      Pages 1-8
  3. Children’s Narratives and Multisemiotics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 105-105
    2. On Interaction of Image and Verbal Text in a Picture Book. A Multimodal and Systemic Functional Study

      • Arsenio Jesús Moya Guijarro, María Jesús Pinar Sanz
      Pages 107-123
    3. The Text-Image Matching: One Story, Two Textualizations

      • María Cristina Astorga
      Pages 124-136
  4. Text and Visual Interaction in Advertising and Marketing

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 137-137
    2. Sequential Visual Discourse Frames

      • Kay L. O’Halloran, Victor Lim Fei
      Pages 139-156
  5. Integrating Text, Visual and Space Multimodally

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 243-243

About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Helsinki, Finland

    Eija Ventola

  • Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain

    Arsenio Jesús Moya Guijarro

About the editors

MARÍA CRISTINA ASTORGA is an Associate Professor, Faculty of Humanities, National University of Río 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, Wärtsilä 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 MARÍA JESÚS 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

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The World Told and the World Shown

  • Book Subtitle: Multisemiotic Issues

  • Editors: Eija Ventola, Arsenio Jesús Moya Guijarro

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230245341

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Language & Linguistics Collection, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2009

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-57635-3Published: 29 October 2009

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-36621-7Published: 29 October 2009

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-24534-1Published: 29 October 2009

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 293

  • Number of Illustrations: 33 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Sociolinguistics, Semiotics, Communication Studies, Literary Theory, Applied Linguistics

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Softcover Book USD 54.99
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