New Directions in the Analysis of Multimodal Discourse offers a comprehensive international view of multimodal discourse and presents new directions for research and application in this growing field.

Contents: Preface. C.M.I.M. Matthiessen, The Multimodal Page: A Systemic Functional Exploration. T.D. Royce, Intersemiotic Complementarity: A Framework for Multimodal Discourse Analysis. P.J. Thibault, Writing, Graphology, and Visual Semiosis. J. Bateman, J. Delin, R. Henschel, Mapping the Multimodal Genres of Traditional and Electronic Newspapers. A.P. Baldry, The Role of Multimodal Concordancers in Multimodal Corpus Linguistics. V.L. Fei, The Visual Semantics Stratum: Making Meaning in Sequential Images. J.R. Martin, M. Stenglin, Materializing Reconciliation: Negotiating Difference in a Transcolonial Exhibition. W.L. Bowcher, A Multimodal Analysis of Good Guys and Bad Guys in Rugby League Week.B. Mohan, T. Slater, E. Kobayashi, L. Luo, M. Kobayashi, K. Ji, Multimodal Scientific Representations Across Languages and Cultures. A.A. Ferreira, Japanese Semiotic Vernaculars in ESP Multiliteracies Projects. L. Unsworth, Multiliteracies and Multimodal Text Analysis in Classroom Work With Children's Literature. T.D. Royce, Multimodal Communicative Competence in Second Language Contexts.