Semiotic Margins - Meaning in Multimodalities

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.Table of ContentIntroduction, Theo van Leeuwen (University of Technology, Sydney, Australia); Part I: Beyond Paralinguistics; Part II: Evolving cartographies in music and space; Part III: Intermodality: Theoretical resources for mapping visual verbal relations; Part IV: Intermodality: Visual verbal relations and literacy; Part V: Imaging representations of meaning; 10. Visualising instantiation: Text visualisation techniques for preserving logogenesis, Michele Zappavigna (University of Sydney, Australia); 11. Visualising multimodal patterning, David Caldwell & Michele Zappavigna (University of Sydney, Australia); Conclusion, James R. Martin (University of Sydney, Australia); Index.Biographical NoteShoshana Dreyfus is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Sydney, Australia. Susan Hood is Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia. Maree Stenglin is Lecturer of Literacy and Learning in the Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Sydney, Australia.A systemic functional linguistics study analysing how a wide range of modalities, other than language, make and communicate meaning.Brings together established and emerging scholars in education, linguistics and social semiotics.Contributes to the ongoing dialogue between linguistics and other disciplines:psychology, education, information technology.Extends the field of semiotic analysis and expands the theory