Multimodal transcription and text analysis: A multimedia tookit and coursebook with associated on-line course

Abstract

What are multimodal texts? How can we transcribe and analyse them? How can multimedia and internet help us in multimodal discourse analysis? What postproduction and authoring skills are needed to analyse a multimodal text or to develop a corpus of multimodal texts? How does integrating multimedia meaning-making resources into hypertext multiply our meaning-making potential? How does the study of language relate to multimodality and multimedia, in particular in the e-learning age? How, and to what extent, will multimodal discourse analysis re-shape linguistics?. In its attempt to provide answer. Cover; Table of Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Preface; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; References; Index