Pub Date : 2023-08-19DOI: 10.1177/17504813231192794
Shuoyu Fang
This book, edited by Sabine Tan and Marissa K. L. E, makes a significant contribution to the Routledge Studies in Multimodality series organized by Kay O’Halloran. The purpose of this edited volume is to investigate the different meanings that emerged from a mass of discourses, modes, and media during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic. The book comprises 12 chapters, arranged in four main parts after an introductory chapter. Part I (Chapters 2–3) contributes to the use of semiotic modes in static multimodal media about the COVID-19 pandemic. Abdel-Raheem (Chapter 2) uses a large corpus of Arab political cartoons to examine the metaphorical process of transforming real-world events into pictorial acts. The author presents a quantitative and qualitative analysis of frequent speech acts, with a special focus on the evaluative and performative qualities of metaphor. The procedural steps for identifying (verbo-)pictorial metaphors as well as nonverbal performatives are well explained. In the analysis of cartoons, the judging behavior can be interpreted as either positive or negative. In Chapter 3, E and Tan use a multimodal social semiotic approach to examine how Singaporeans are informed about the COVID-19 virus through the comic book medium. In addition to providing a broad overview of COVID-19-related communication practice, the chapter discusses the role of comics, pertaining to their advantages and disadvantages to communicate messages about public health. This chapter examines how five comics that reflect important themes from the COVID-19 Chronicles dataset have arranged semiotic components and used text and images in tandem in metafunctional ways. Part II (Chapters 4–5) focuses on the use of new media technologies in education and public health communication. Lim and Toh (Chapter 4) reflect on the various ways that three types of semiotic technologies, that is, video lectures, digital games, and social media, are employed to create meaning in online learning environments. The analysis follows the ‘designing learning’ considerations pertaining to knowledge representation, pedagogic interaction, and learning experience (Lim et al., 2021). By exploring the gains and losses in digital learning, the chapter highlights the significance of designing effective 1192794 DCM0010.1177/17504813231192794Discourse & CommunicationBook reviews book-review2023
这本书由谭（Sabine Tan）和玛丽莎·K·L·E（Marissa K.L.E）主编，对凯·奥哈洛伦（Kay O'Halloran）组织的“多模态劳特利奇研究”（Routledge Studies in Multimodality）系列做出了重大贡献。本编辑卷的目的是调查新冠肺炎大流行早期大量话语、模式和媒体中出现的不同含义。这本书包括12章，在介绍章之后分为四个主要部分。第一部分（第2-3章）有助于在关于新冠肺炎大流行的静态多模式媒体中使用符号模式。Abdel Raheem（第2章）使用大量阿拉伯政治漫画来研究将现实世界事件转化为图像行为的隐喻过程。作者对频繁言语行为进行了定量和定性分析，特别关注隐喻的评价性和表演性。很好地解释了识别（动词）图形隐喻和非语言表演的程序步骤。在对漫画的分析中，评判行为可以被解释为积极的或消极的。在第三章中，E和Tan使用多模式社会符号学方法来研究新加坡人是如何通过漫画媒介了解新冠肺炎病毒的。除了对新冠肺炎相关传播实践进行广泛概述外，本章还讨论了漫画的作用，以及漫画在传播公共卫生信息方面的优势和劣势。本章研究了反映新冠肺炎编年史数据集中重要主题的五部漫画如何排列符号学成分，并以元功能的方式同时使用文本和图像。第二部分（第4-5章）侧重于新媒体技术在教育和公共卫生传播中的应用。Lim和Toh（第4章）反思了三种类型的符号技术，即视频讲座、数字游戏和社交媒体，在在线学习环境中创造意义的各种方式。该分析遵循了与知识表征、教学互动和学习体验相关的“设计学习”考虑因素（Lim et al.，2021）。通过探索数字学习的收益和损失，本章强调了设计有效的1192794 DCM0010.1177/17504813231192794探索与交流书评书评2023的重要性
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Pub Date : 2023-08-01Epub Date: 2023-03-27DOI: 10.1177/17504813231163078
Tayden Fung Chan, Yating Yu
'A global community of health for all' has become a dominant concept in China's global health governance system. Although this concept has been investigated by several studies in different domains, little attention has been given to its discursive legitimation in China's media communication from a linguistic perspective. To fill this gap, the present study employs positive discourse analysis to investigate how the aforementioned concept is legitimised via the predominant discourses associated with COVID-19 in state-run Chinese English-language newspapers. The findings show that the Chinese news media attempted to formulate the positive discourses, including cooperation as a win-win solution, people's lives and well-being as the priority and science as the spirit, though the discourses may not resonate with some countries. The findings shed light on the use of language by the media in promoting official ideologies, projecting China's national image and improving China's international relations amid a global health crisis.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-01DOI: 10.1177/17504813231185716
Marina Rospitasari, Narita Pratiwi, Hendra Zebua
the authors admit, one of the limitations of the research is that ‘some important intellectual discussions taking place outside Western academia may still be under-represented, partly reflecting our own limitations’ (2). Their research has thrown up many questions in need of further analysis as to the institutional discourses of international organizations in non-Western languages, such as Chinese and Arabic. The authors call the reader’s attention to other researchers as they argue that ‘in order to actually see how hegemonic this ideology in non-Western documents should be analyzed’ and expressing the hope that ‘other scholars will feel inspired to undertake this investigation’ (18). All that said, the book makes significant theoretical contributions to both discourse and translation studies and will be useful for researchers and students in critical discourse analysis, translation studies and political studies.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-01DOI: 10.1177/17504813231185714
Polina Mesinioti
those readers who are not familiar with stylistics and its analytical tools, and are also an inspiration and enlightenment for scholars engaged in interdisciplinary research in stylistics, discourse analysis and ecolinguistics. In general, this book discusses the stories we live by focusing on ecocentrism in an interdisciplinary perspective, which will be of interest to linguists, biologists, academic researchers and sustainability officers working in environmental agencies and organizations.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-01DOI: 10.1177/17504813231185715
Yuan Ping
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Pub Date : 2023-06-09DOI: 10.1177/17504813231177280
Jonathan Hendrickx, Annelien Van Remoortere, Michael Opgenhaffen
Facebook remains the most important platform where social media editors package and try to 'sell' media outlets' online news articles to audiences. In one of the first studies of its kind, we assess how this practice was effectuated during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. We use computational analysis to determine the polarity, subjectivity and use of some linguistics features in the status messages of 140,359 Facebook posts of 17 mainstream and alternative news titles from Flanders (Belgium) between March 2020 and 2021. Among other things, we find that status messages score considerably higher than headlines in terms of polarity and subjectivity, and that they, along with the use of question and interrogation marks, peaked in the first months of the pandemic. We contextualise our findings within existing scholarship and wider trends in increasingly digitised and globalised media societies.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-30DOI: 10.1177/17504813231174802
Gwen Bouvier, David Machin
At the time of writing, it had become common to find trending social media hashtags where users were expressing their feelings about current social and political issues through a range of symbolic gestures, such as striking a pose, wearing a garment, or changing their personal icon. Scholars had begun to consider such gestures in regard to whether they constitute a meaningful form of civic participation or activism. In the present paper, we seek to contribute to this literature by using multimodal critical discourse analysis to examine the contents of one Twitter hashtag where users participate in this form of activism: #StandWithWomenlnAfghanistan. Aligning with emerging scholarship on the nature of online affective publics, the analysis shows that those tweeting do not align with clear and specific issues, causalities, or solutions based on contextual understanding. On the one hand, symbolic gestures can be thought of as vernaculars that support a heterogeneous, fuzzy, and incoherent set of meanings. Yet on the other hand, across the posts using this hashtag, we find a discourse where injustice and solutions are based on notions of individual identity and freedom of expression rooted in the liberal democratic traditions of the European Enlightenment, here brought to bear on the hugely diverse and specific lives of women in Afghanistan. For many scholars, it is such ethnocentrism that underpins the very imperialist imagining of Afghanistan that led to, and legitimized, the invasion and occupation in the first place.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-22DOI: 10.1177/17504813231171644
Wen Zhao
Aviation English (AE) is a distinct register of English used by pilots and air traffic controllers. As it is one of the contributing factors to aviation safety, ICAO and its Member States’ aviation authorities require the airspace users to have the proficiency in using AE effectively. In recent years, the training and testing have gained more attention, but little work has been done to describe its linguistic features. The study set out to describe AE from the perspective of systemic functional linguistics with an aim to illustrate its linguistic features as compared to conversational English (CE). To achieve this goal, the corpora of CE and AE communications between native English speakers from the United States were respectively constructed and then scrutinized to demonstrate that AE has a significant difference from CE in functional-semantic aspects. The findings of this study reveal how distinct AE with CE in terms of speech functions. Some pedagogical implications were then proposed for enhancing AE training to cultivate the students’ competence in semantics and interaction.
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