New Discourse on Language Functional Perspectives on Multimodality, Identity, and Affiliation

New Discourse on Languageaddresses the need for innovative analyses of multi-modal discourse, identity and affiliation within functional linguistics. The chapters in this volume are connected by their common underlying theoretical approach, Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), and by their focus on semantic variation (across modalities of communication and between speakers) as well as the negotiation of identity and affiliation. The analyses focus on a diverse range of texts from very different contexts, using analytic techniques that are based on the latest research in this field. They represent a wealth of exploratory, innovative and challenging perspectives, and are a key contribution to the extension of systemic-functional theory to the analysis of multimodality, identity and affiliation.The volume is of interest to linguists, applied linguists, semioticians, and communication theorists.

Notes onContributors \ 1. Semantic Variation: Modelling System, Text and Affiliation inSocial Semiosis J. R. Martin \ 2. Wrinkling Complexity: Concepts of Identityand Affiliation in Humour Naomi Knight \ 3. Making Metre Mean: Identity and Affiliationin the Rap Music of Kanye West David Caldwell \ 4. Khao naa nung: A MultimodalAnalysis of Thai-language Newspaper Front Pages John Knox, Pattama Patpong andYupaporn Piriyasilpa \ 5. Doubling-up: Allusion and Bonding in Multisemiotic NewsStories Helen Caple \ 6. Playing with ‘femininity': An Inter-modal Analysis of Bilingualpicture book The Ballad of Mulan Ping Tian \ 7. Imagining Communities: A MultifunctionalApproach to Identity Management in texts Ken Tann \ 8. Intersemiotic Relationsas Logogenetic Patterns: Towards the Restoration of the Time Dimension in HypertextDescription Sumin Zhao \ 9. The Coupling of Gesture and Phonology Michele Zappavigna,Chris Cléirigh, Paul Dwyer and J.R. Martin \ 10. Corpus Linguistics andSystemic Functional Linguistics: Interpersonal meaning, Identity and Bonding inPopular Culture Monika Bednarek \ Index