Chapter2LiteratureReview
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Halliday(1978,1985)providesMDA晰m
a
comprehensiveframework
all
ona
systemicfunctionalbasisbecausethemetafunctionalprincipleprovidesplatformformultimodaltheoryandpractice.
Kressand
integrating
Leeuwen(2001)said“if
we
see
traditionallinguisticshaddefined
a
language
as
a
systemthatworkedthroughdoublearticulation,whereform
messageis
an
articulation
aSa
and
asa
meaning,wethey
have
see
multimodal
four
textsas
makingmeaningin
multiple
articulations.And
mainlydomains:discourse,design,
productionanddistribution.
There
are
strongercorrelationsbetween
can
theoryandpracticeofmultimodalstudies,
fieldofLeeuwen
somethingwhich
be
seen
clearlyin
thecorpusofworkwithinthe
vail
multimodalstudieswithinthesocialsemiotictradition(e.g.Kressand
1996,2006;Jewitt2009,O’Halloranetal2010in
press).
O’Toole’S(1994)
The
move
across
into
another’S
fieldofexpertisehasbeen,since
pioneeringwork
on
visualfineart.ForO’Toole,the
justificationwastobringthefresh
andtheoreticallypowerfulsocialsemioticperspectiveofsystemicfunctionaltheoryto
bearuponthe
since
analysis
ofvisualart,anestablisheddomainofstudy.Atthesametime,
work
on
VanLeeuwen’S(1999)early
thesemioticsofspeech,musicandsound
on
and
Kressand
a
VanLeeuwen’S(1996,2006)work
or
visualsemiotics,thepracticeof
bringingin
In
new
unexploreddomains.
VanLeeuwen’S(1999)researchof
as
speech,musicandsound,hestatedhisgoalof
researchfollows:
“Itisthe
projectofthisbooktoexplorethecommongroundbetweenspeech,music
threehaveusuallybeentreated
as
and
other
sounds.These
separate,intheory
aS
well
as
practice.They
linguistics
havebeentalkedaboutindifferentways
andwith
differentterminologies:
totalk
totalkabout
speech,musicology
totalk
aboutmusic;notmuchattall
about‘sound
effects’.And
on
a
theyhavebeenpracticedasseparatedisciplines
too….This
booktriestodotheoreticallevelwhat
.
manycontemporarymusicians,poets,
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