Dear colleagues,
You are warmly invited to the duo book launch to be held face-to-face at
Australian Catholic University, North Sydney campus, NSW, Australia.
Duo book launch: "Modelling Paralanguage using Systemic Functional
Semiotics" and "Multimodal Literacy in School Science"
Time: 5:30- 8:00 p.mDate: 16th March 2022 Venue: Peter Cosgrove Centre,
level 18, Tenision Woods House, 8-20 Napier Street, North Sydney. Mode:
Face-to-face
*Online attendance*: video conference link will be provided close to the
date.
*Register: $0.00 *
For catering purposes, *p*lease go to the link below to register by 00:00
hour 13/03/2022 Sydney time if you are going to attend face-to-face. There
is a limit of 50 tickets.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launch-tickets-278157485527
*About this event: *
In this event we are launching two books:
1. *Modelling Paralanguage using Systemic Functional Semiotics: Theory and
Application*.
by Thu Ngo, Susan Hood, J.R. Martin, Clare Painter, Bradley A. Smith and
Michele Zappavigna.
This book is the first comprehensive account of 'body language' as
'paralanguage' informed by Systemic Functional Semiotics (SFS). It brings
together the collaborative work of internationally renowned academics and
emerging scholars to offer a fresh linguistic perspective on gesture, body
orientation, body movement, facial expression and voice quality resources
that support all spoken language.
The authors create a framework for distinguishing non-semiotic behaviour
from paralanguage, and provide a comprehensive modelling of paralanguage in
each of the three metafunctions of meaning (ideational, interpersonal and
textual). Illustrations of the application of this new model for multimodal
discourse analysis draw on a range of contexts, from social media vlogs, to
animated children's narratives, to face-to-face teaching. Modelling
Paralanguage Using Systemic Functional Semiotics offers an innovative way
for dealing with culture-specific and context specific paralanguage.
2. *Multimodal Literacy in School Science: Transdisciplinary perspectives
on theory, research and pedagogy.*
by Len Unsworth, Russell Tytler, Lisl Fenwick, Sally Humphrey, Paul
Chandler, Michele Harrington and Lam Pham
This book establishes a new theoretical and practical framework for
multimodal disciplinary literacy (MDL) fused with the subject-specific
science pedagogies of senior high school biology, chemistry and physics. It
builds a compatible alignment of multiple representation and representation
construction approaches to science pedagogy with the social semiotic,
systemic functional linguistic-based approaches to the explicit teaching of
disciplinary literacy.
The early part of the book explicates the transdisciplinary negotiated
theoretical underpinning of the MDL framework, followed by the
research-informed repertoire of learning experiences that are then
articulated into a comprehensive framework of options for the planning of
classroom work.Practical adoption and adaptation of the framework in
biology, chemistry and physics classrooms are detailed in separate
chapters. The latter chapters indicate the impact of the collaborative
research on teachers’ professional learning and students’ multimodal
disciplinary literacy engagement, concluding with proposals for
accommodating emerging developments in MDL in an ever-changing digital
communication world.
The MDL framework is designed to enable teachers to develop all students’
disciplinary literacy competencies. This book will be of interest to
researchers, teacher educators and postgraduate students in the field of
science education. It will also have appeal to those in literacy education
and social semiotics.
The authoring teams of the two books very much look forward to welcoming
you to the event.
Regards,
Thu Ngo (on behalf of the authoring teams)
