New Discourse on Language: Functional Perspectives on Multimodality, Identity, and Affiliation - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1441153225 ISBN 13: 9781441153227

Publisher: Continuum, 2011

Synopsis

New Discourse on Language addresses the need for innovative analyses of multi-modal discourse, identity and affiliation within functional linguistics. The chapters in this volume are connected by their common underlying theoretical approach, Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), and by their focus on semantic variation (across modalities of communication and between speakers) as well as the negotiation of identity and affiliation.

The analyses focus on a diverse range of texts from very different contexts, using analytic techniques that are based on the latest research in this field. They represent a wealth of exploratory, innovative and challenging perspectives, and are a key contribution to the extension of systemic-functional theory to the analysis of multimodality, identity and affiliation.

The volume is of interest to linguists, applied linguists, semioticians, and communication theorists.

About this title

About the Authors

Monika Bednarek is a Senior Lecturer in Linguistics at the University of Sydney, Australia.

J. R. Martin is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Sydney, Australia. The Martin Centre for Appliable Linguistics was opened by Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2014.

Edition details

• Publisher: Continuum
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1441153225
• ISBN 13: 9781441153227
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 280
• Editor: Bednarek Monika, Martin J. R.