New Directions in the Analysis of Multimodal Discourse offers a comprehensive international view of multimodal discourse and presents new directions for research and application in this growing field. With contributions from top scholars around the world, this work opens up the field of multimodal discourse analysis as it covers a wide range of interests such as computational linguistics, education, ideology, and media discourse.

The range and scope of the chapters in this book provide groundbreaking insights into exploring and accounting for the various facets of multimodality...

Drawing predominantly on the theoretical approaches of systemic functional linguistics, scholars from the Americas, Europe, Asia, and Australia offer a range of perspectives on multi-modal discourse analysis, emphasizing ways in which the different modes interact inter-semiotically. After some discussion of theory, they look at such areas as writin