Meaning Making in Text

1. Introduction

1. Introduction
Sonja Starc, Carys Jones, Arianna Maiorani

Part I. Perspectives on Language in Text

2. Thematic Structure and Progression in Some Late Seventeenth-Century French Texts
David Banks

3. Multifunctional Roles of the First Person Singular in Academic Texts
Toini Rahtu

4. The Position of Connectors in Slovene and Croatian Student Academic Writing: a Corpus-Based Approach
Tatjana Balažic Bulc, Vojko Gorjanc

5. Aspects of Nominalization from a Cognitive Perspective
Katja Plemenitaš

6. Exploring Language in Verbal Art: a Case Study in K. Mansfield’s ‘Bliss’
Adriana Pagano, Annabelle Lukin

Part II. Developments in Multimodal Discourse Analysis

7. Positioning the Reader in a Polyfunctional Text: Attitude and Reading Path in a Modern Swedish Handbook on Gardening
Andreas Nord

8. Revisiting Hitchcock: an Alternative Multimodal Reading of Interactive Patterns in Psycho

Arianna Maiorani

9. Meaning in Images: Complexity and Variation across Cultures
Claudia Elena Stoian

10. Language as Access: Transposition and Translation of Audiovisual Texts as a Vehicle of Meaning and a Gateway to Understanding
Christopher Taylor

Part III. Applications to Pedagogy

11. A Multimodal Analysis of Genres of Economics Representation in EAP/ESP
Mersini Karagevrekis

12. Decoding Multimodal Text by Untrained Readers: a Message for Mother Tongue Pedagogy
Sonja Starc

13. Information Flow in Written Text and the Writer-Reader Relationship
Carys Jones

14. Scaffolding Semogenesis: Designing Teacher/Student Interactions for Face-to-Face and Online Learning
James R. Martin, Shoshana Dreyfus

Keywords: Education, Language Teaching, Linguistics, general, Language Education, Sociolinguistics, Translation, Communication Studies