Basic Readings
Reading Images (see at least Chapter 1 and 2)
http://www.slideshare.net/praetece/reading-images-the-grammar-of-visual-design-van-leeuwen-and-kress
Multimodal Discourse Analysis (see at least Introduction and Chapter 9)
Len Unsworth’s Towards a metalanguage for multiliteracies education: Describing the meaningmaking resources of language-image interaction
http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ843820.pdf
Quick Introduction to Systemic Functional Linguistics
http://web.uam.es/departamentos/filoyletras/filoinglesa/Courses/LFC11/LFC-2011-Week1.pdf
Introduction to Visual Grammar
http://www.curriculumsupport.education.nsw.gov.au/secondary/english/assets/pdf/grammar.pdf
Introducing Social Semiotics (see at least Chapter 1)
Brief Review of O’Toole’s Language of Displayed Art (I have the book, if you like to browse)
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/603856861
Slides on Multimodal Assessment
http://www.slideshare.net/emilyscott71/eln302-multimodal-assessment
O’Halloran, K. L., Podlasov, A., Chua, A., Tisse, C.-L., Lim-Fei., V. & Smith, B.A. (2013). Challenges and Solutions to Multimodal Analysis: Technology, Theory and Practice. In Fang ,Y. & Webster, J. (Eds.), Developing Systemic Functional Linguistics: Theory and Application. London: Equinox. Download Draft
Liu & O’Halloran’s Intersemiotic Texture
http://multimodal-analysis-lab.org/_docs/pubs03-IntersemioticTexture%28Manuscript%29.pdf
Further Readings
Jewitt, C., & Kress, G. (Eds.). (2003). Multimodal literacy. New York: Peter Lang.
Kress, G. (2003). Literacy in the new media age. London & New York: Routledge.
Kress, G. (2010). Multimodality: A social semiotic approach to contemporary communication. London & New York: Routledge.
Kress, G., Jewitt C., Ogborn, J., &Tsatsarelis, C. (2001). Multimodal teaching and learning: the rhetorics of the science classroom. London & New York: Continuum.
Kress, G., Jewitt, C., Bourne, J., Franks, A., Hardcastle, J., Jones, K. & Reid, E. (2005). English in urban classrooms: A multimodal perspective on teaching and learning. London, UK: RoutledgeFalmer.
Norris, S. (2004). Analysing multimodal interaction: A methodical framework. London & New York: Routledge.
O’Halloran, K.L. (Ed.). (2004). Multimodal discourse analysis: Systemic functional perspectives. London & New York: Continuum.
O’Halloran, K. L. & Smith, B. A. (Eds.). (2011). Multimodal studies: Exploring issues and domains. New York & London: Routledge.
O’Halloran, K. L. and Smith B. A. (in press-a). Multimodality and technology. In Carol A. Chapelle (Ed.), Encyclopaedia of applied linguistics. New Jersey: Wiley-Blackwell. Retrieved from http://multimodal-analysis-lab.org/_docs/encyclopedia/02-Multimodality_and_Technology-O’Halloran_and_Smith.pdf
O’Halloran, K. L. and Smith B. A. (in press-b). Multimodal text analysis. In Carol A. Chapelle (Ed.), Encyclopaedia of applied linguistics. New Jersey: Wiley-Blackwell. Retrieved from http://multimodal-analysis-lab.org/_docs/encyclopedia/01-Multimodal_Text_Analysis-O’Halloran_and_Smith.pdf
O’Halloran, K. L., Tan, S., Smith, B. A., & Podlasov, A. (2010). Challenges in designing digital interfaces for the study of multimodal phenomena. Information Design Journal, 18(1), 2-12.
O’Toole, M. (1994/2010). The language of displayed art (2nd edition). London & New York: Routledge (1st edition 1994).
Ventola, E., & Guijarro, A.J.M. (Eds.). (2009). The world told and the world shown: Multisemiotic issues. Palgrave Macmillan: Hampshire.
Walsh, M. (2009). Pedagogic potentials of multimodal literacy. In Tan, W. H. L., & Subramanian, R. (Eds.), Handbook of Research on New Media Literacy at the K-12 Level: Issues and Challenges. US: Science Reference, Hershey.
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