Image/text relations and intersemiosis: Towards multimodal text description for multiliteracies education

Title
Image/text relations and intersemiosis: Towards multimodal text description for multiliteracies education
Publication Date
2007
Author(s)
Unsworth, Len
Editor
Editor(s): L. Barbara & T. Berber Sardinha
Type of document
Conference Publication
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Pontificia Universidade Catolica de Sao Paulo
Place of publication
São Paulo, Brazil
UNE publication id
une:2278
Abstract
The literacies needed in this multimedia information age must embrace both images and the printed word in electronic and traditional media. Today both language and images are integral to the texts we use. As well as making meanings separately, language and images combine to make meanings in new ways in contemporary texts. A functional semiotic theory of the ways images and language interact to make meanings can provide a metalanguage for literacy education that takes into account the multimodal forms of contemporary texts. This presentation draws on two large on-going Australian Government funded research projects in which the author is a chief investigator, to describe emerging functional semiotic accounts of image/text relations and their implications for approaches to multimodal literacy education.
Link
Citation
Proceedings of the 33rd IFSC: International Systemic Functional Congress, p. 1165-1205
ISBN
852830342X
Start page
1165
End page
1205

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