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

by J.R. Martin and Monika Bednarek

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1847064833
• ISBN13: 9781847064837
• Release Date: February 2010
• Publisher: Continuum
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"