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

Notes on Contributors \ 1. Semantic Variation: Modelling System, Text and Affiliation in Social Semiosis J. R. Martin \ 2. Wrinkling Complexity: Concepts of Identity and Affiliation in Humour Naomi Knight \ 3. Making Metre Mean: Identity and Affiliation in the Rap Music of Kanye West David Caldwell \ 4. Khao naa nung: A Multimodal Analysis of Thai-language Newspaper Front Pages John Knox, Pattama Patpong and Yupaporn Piriyasilpa \ 5. Doubling-up: Allusion and Bonding in Multisemiotic News Stories Helen Caple \ 6. Playing with 'femininity': An Inter-modal Analysis of Bilingual picture book The Ballad of Mulan Ping Tian \ 7. Imagining Communities: A Multifunctional Approach to Identity Management in texts Ken Tann \ 8. Intersemiotic Relations as Logogenetic Patterns: Towards the Restoration of the Time Dimension in Hypertext Description Sumin Zhao \ 9. The Coupling of Gesture and Phonology Michele Zappavigna, Chris Cleirigh, Paul Dwyer and J.R. Martin \ 10. Corpus Linguistics and Systemic Functional Linguistics: Interpersonal meaning, Identity and Bonding in Popular Culture Monika Bednarek \ Index