Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/8766
Title: Integrating Visual and Verbal Meaning in Multimodal Text Comprehension: Towards a Model of Intermodal Relations
Contributor(s): Chan, Eveline  (author)orcid 
Publication Date: 2011
Handle Link: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/8766
Abstract: The purpose of this chapter is to explore a tentative framework for modelling image-text relations (earlier versions appear in Unsworth 2006, 2008) which describes the extent to which visual and verbal elements contribute to the overall ideational meaning in multimodal texts and the nature of the relationships among the elements. It is intended that such a model will contribute to a richer understanding of students' reading of multimodal texts, while offering a systematic approach to describing inter-semiotic relations in a way that is both useful and accessible to teachers and test-writers. To test the efficacy of the model, the framework has been applied to the analysis of data from a project investigating multimodal reading comprehension in group literacy tests administered by a state government education authority (Unsworth et al. 2006-2008). The questions explored in this research relate to how image and verbiage interact in the test stimulus materials and how students interpret meanings involving image-text relations.
Publication Type: Book Chapter
Source of Publication: Semiotic Margins: Meaning in Multimodalites, p. 144-167
Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group
Place of Publication: London, United Kingdom
ISBN: 9781441170163
9781441173225
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: 130204 English and Literacy Curriculum and Pedagogy (excl LOTE, ESL and TESOL)
130303 Education Assessment and Evaluation
200401 Applied Linguistics and Educational Linguistics
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: 950202 Languages and Literacy
950205 Visual Communication
HERDC Category Description: B1 Chapter in a Scholarly Book
Publisher/associated links: http://www.continuumbooks.com/books/detail.aspx?BookId=157554
http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/38679536
Editor: Editor(s): Shoshana Dreyfus, Maree Stenglin and Susan Hood
Appears in Collections:Book Chapter
School of Education

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