Multimodal Semiotics Functional Analysis in Contexts of Education

Contents......Page 6
Notes on Contributors......Page 8
Preface......Page 11
Acknowledgements......Page 12
1. Multimodal Semiotic Analyses and Education......Page 14
Part One: Semiotics and 3D Space......Page 28
2. Analysing Space: Adapting and Extending Multimodal Frameworkds......Page 30
3. Space in Discourse......Page 47
4. Interpersonal Meaning in 3D Space: How a Bonding Icon Gets Its ‘Charge’......Page 63
5. The Interplay of Discourse, Place and Space in Pedagogic Relations......Page 80
Part Two: Semiotics in Film......Page 100
6. Coherence and Cohesive Harmony in Filmic Text......Page 102
7. Metafunctional Analyses of Sound in Film Communication......Page 118
Part Three: Semiotics in News and Public Media......Page 136
8. Intermodal Relations in Image Nuclear News Stories......Page 138
9. Online Newspapers and TESOL Classrooms: A Multimodal Perspective......Page 152
10. Symbolic Constructions in Global Public Visuals: A Pedagogic Framework for Critical Visual Literacy......Page 172
Part Four: Semiotics in School Curricula......Page 184
11. Literacy Across the School Subjects: A Multimodal Approach......Page 186
12. Time Visuals in History Textbooks: Some Pedagogic Issues......Page 200
13. Multimodal Representation of Educational Meanings in Montessori Pedagogy......Page 214
14. Children’s Website Structure and Navigation......Page 229
15. Picturing the Landscape of the Knowledge Society: A Semiotic Point of View on Adolescents’ Pictorial Metaphors......Page 250
D......Page 266
L......Page 267
O......Page 268
T......Page 269
Z......Page 270