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Title: | Towards a metalanguage for multiliteracies education: Describing the meaning-making resources of language-image interaction | Contributor(s): | Unsworth, Len (author) | Publication Date: | 2006 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/2130 | Abstract: | The increasingly integrative use of images with language in many different types of texts in electronic and paper media has created an urgent need to go beyond logocentric accounts of literacy and literacy pedagogy. Correspondingly there is a need to augment the genre, grammar and discourse descriptions of verbal text as resources for literacy pedagogy to include descriptions of the meaning-making resources of images. Some augmentation along these lines has involved the articulation of Hallidayan systemic functional descriptions of language, mainly focussed on verbal grammar, with the social semiotic descriptions of the meaning-making resources of images described in a grammar of visual design proposed by Kress and van Leeuwen. However, current research indicates that articulating discrete visual and verbal grammars is not sufficient to account for meanings made at the intersection of language and image. This paper adopts a systemic functional semiotic perspective in outlining a range of different types of such meanings in different kinds of texts, suggesting the significance of such meanings in comprehending and composing contemporary multimodal texts, and the importance of developing an appropriate metalanguage to enable explicit discussion of these meaning-making resources by teachers and students. | Publication Type: | Journal Article | Source of Publication: | English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 5(1), p. 55-76 | Publisher: | University of Waikato | Place of Publication: | New Zealand | ISSN: | 1175-8708 | Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 130207 LOTE, ESL and TESOL Curriculum and Pedagogy (excl Maori) | Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 930203 Teaching and Instruction Technologies | Peer Reviewed: | Yes | HERDC Category Description: | C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal | Publisher/associated links: | http://education.waikato.ac.nz/research/files/etpc/files/2006v5n1art4.pdf |
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