Analyzing the media : a systemic functional approach /

Analyzing the Media provides original studies from established scholars in the field of SFL and/or multimodality as well as from young scholars who have already delivered remarkable contributions to the discipline. The volume starts with an introduction to media studies from an SFL perspective. The...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Kaltenbacher, Martin, 1966- (Editor), Stöckl, Hartmut, 1965- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Sheffield, UK ; Bristol, Connecticut : Equinox Publishing Ltd, 2019.
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Table of Contents:
  • Media and education: a functional view on simplification criteria of news articles in the second language classroom / Ana María Coria, María Cristina Spínola and Ann Montemayor-Borsinger
  • Personalization as cultural practice: the interpersonal component of language in the opinion discourse of the British, German, and Italian quality press / Melanie Kerschner
  • Generic structures, rhetorical relations and thematic patterns in English and Spanish journalistic texts: a comparative study / Julia Lavid and Lara Moratión
  • Popular science articles in broadsheet newspapers, consumer magazines, and specialized magazines: engagement resources from a translation perspective / Marina Manfredi
  • The interpersonal metafunction of and-parenthetical clauses in English journalism / Carlos Prado-Alonso
  • Packaging voices in the British press: aspects of the logogenesis of science dissemination / Miriam Pérez-Veneros
  • English news texts in the light of authorial orientation: a classification of subjective and objective text types based on the system of modality / Martin Kaltenbacher
  • Interpersonal aspects of an English language internet travel forum / David Banks
  • Blending SFL and activity theory to model communication and artefact use: examples from human-computer interaction / Rebekah Wegener and Jörg Cassens
  • Smell as social semiotic: on the deployment and intersemiotic potential of smell / Daniel Lees Fryer.