Image/text relations and intersemiosis: Towards multimodal text description for multiliteracies education

Len Unsworth

Image/text relations and intersemiosis: Towards multimodal text description for multiliteracies education

Len Unsworth

School of Education

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Abstract

The literacies needed in this multimedia information age must embrace both images and the printed word in electronic and traditional media. Today both language and images are integral to the texts we use. As well as making meanings separately, language and images combine to make meanings in new ways in contemporary texts. A functional semiotic theory of the ways images and language interact to make meanings can provide a metalanguage for literacy education that takes into account the multimodal forms of contemporary texts. This presentation draws on two large on-going Australian Government funded research projects in which the author is a chief investigator, to describe emerging functional semiotic accounts of image/text relations and their implications for approaches to multimodal literacy education.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	ISFC 2006: 33rd International Systemic Functional Congress10th - 15th July, 2006
Editors	L. Barbara & T. Berber Sardinha
Place of Publication	São Paulo, Brazil
Publisher	Pontificia Universidade Catolica de Sao Paulo
Pages	1165-1205
ISBN (Print)	852830342X
Publication status	Published - 31 Dec 2007
Event	ISFC 2006: 33rd International Systemic Functional Congress - Sao Paulo, Brazil Duration: 10 Jul 2006 → 15 Jul 2006

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Conference	ISFC 2006: 33rd International Systemic Functional Congress
City	Sao Paulo, Brazil
Period	10/07/06 → 15/07/06

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English and Literacy Curriculum and Pedagogy (excl LOTE, ESL and TESOL)

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Unsworth, L 2007, Image/text relations and intersemiosis: Towards multimodal text description for multiliteracies education. in LBTB Sardinha (ed.), ISFC 2006: 33rd International Systemic Functional Congress10th - 15th July, 2006. Pontificia Universidade Catolica de Sao Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, pp. 1165-1205, ISFC 2006: 33rd International Systemic Functional Congress, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 10/07/06. <https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/2206>

Image/text relations and intersemiosis: Towards multimodal text description for multiliteracies education. / Unsworth, Len.
ISFC 2006: 33rd International Systemic Functional Congress10th - 15th July, 2006. ed. / L. Barbara & T. Berber Sardinha. São Paulo, Brazil: Pontificia Universidade Catolica de Sao Paulo, 2007. p. 1165-1205.

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