TY - JOUR
AU1 - Jewitt, Carey
AB - REVIEWS 335 Washbrook, D. A. 1999. ‘Orients and occidents: Colonial discourse theory and the historiography of the British Empire’, in R. Winks (ed.): The Oxford History of the British Empire, Volume V: Historiography. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 596–611. Wertsch, J. and K. O’Connor. 1994. ‘Multivoicedness in historical representation: American college students’ accounts of the origins of the United States’, in J. Wertsch (ed.) Special Issue on Historical Representation, Journal of Narrative and Life History 4: 295–309. K. O’Halloran: MULTIMODAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS: SYSTEMIC FUNCTIONAL PERSPECTIVES. Continuum, 2004. As the title of this book promises, it offers an in-depth exploration of a variety of texts and discourses from a multimodal systemic functional perspective. Each chapter offers a grounded approach to a particular aspect of multimodal discourse analysis. The chapters socially situate the text(s) being discussed to make connections across the design (social organization) of a text, a culture’s knowledge of itself and the world. The book focuses on the multimodal research of colleagues at the National University of Singapore, much of which is influenced by the theoretical work of Michael O’Toole. This makes a good contribution to understanding how multimodality is being developed differently within different contexts. The book is 
TI - K. O'Halloran: Multimodal Discourse Analysis: Systemic Functional Perspectives. Continuum, 2004.
JF - Applied Linguistics
DO - 10.1093/applin/aml002
DA - 2006-06-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/k-o-halloran-multimodal-discourse-analysis-systemic-functional-TQ500TVqlD
SP - 335
EP - 337
VL - 27
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -