Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Abstract
摘要
Figures and Tables
Chapter 1 Introduction
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Elucidation of Key Notions
1.2.1 Mode,modality,multi-semiotic,and multimodality
1.2.2 Multimodal text1
1.2.3 Visual multimodal texts
1.2.4 Multimodal newspaper texts
1.2.5 Image
1.3 Descriptive Framework for multimodal Newspaper Texts
1.3.1 Genre and multimodal text analysis
1.3.2 Multimodal genre
1.3.3 Building a genre-based model
1.4 Structure of the thesis
1.5 Summary
Chapter 2 Multimodality in Newspaper Texts
2.1 Newspaper Texts as Communication
2.2 Technology and Multimodal Newspaper Texts
2.2.1 Printing press and printed newspaper
2.2.2 Photograph editing and the use of photographs
2.2.3 Technology and design innovation
2.2.4 Images as important meaning carriers in current newspapers
2.3 Studies on Multimodal Newspaper texts
2.3.1 Studies on multimodal news reports
2.3.2 Studies on multimodal opinions
2.3.3 Comparative studies on newspaper texts
2.4 Summary
Chapter 3 Studies on Visual Multimodal Texts
3.1 Multimodal Newspaper Texts as One Type of Visual Multimodal Texts
3.2 Perspectives on Visual Multimodal Texts
3.3 Visual Multimodal Text as an Object of Perception
3.4 Visual Multimodal Text as an Object of Interpretation
3.4.1 Studies on the meanings in image
3.4.2 Studies on image-text interaction
3.4.3 Studies on genre and multimodal documents
3.4.4 Studies on typography and visual layout
3.5 Summary
Chapter 4 Descriptive Layers of the Genre-based Model
4.1 Writing and Image as Two Modes with Perceptual Equity
4.2 Building the Genre-based Model
4.3 The Genre-based Model:the Base Layer
4.3.1 Representation systems:Typography and Graphics
4.3.2 Identifying base units
4.3.3 Labeling base units
4.3.4 Unit composites:grouping base units functionally
4.4 The Genre-based Model:the Layout Layer
4.4.1 Principle for newspaper layout
4.4.2 Area model:specifying location
4.4.3 Generalizing layout pattern
4.5 The Genre-based Model:the Rhetorical Layer
4.5.1 Meaning of rhetoric
4.5.2 Rhetorical relations
4.5.3 Rhetorical relations in Medvedev text
4.6 One More Exemplar Analysis
4.6.1 Features at the Base layer
4.6.2 Features at the Layout layer
4.6.3 Features at the Rhetorical layer
4.6.4 Summary of the features in Medvedev text and Putin article
4.7 Summary
Chapter 5 Genre and Multimodal News Texts
5.1 Linguistic Perspectives on Genre
5.1.1 Genre as social action
5.1.2 Genre as social semiotic
5.2 Multimodal Genre
5.2.1 Defining multimodal genre
5.2.2 Moving to Multimodal Genre
5.3.1 Moving to multimodal genre from linguistic approaches to genre
5.3.2 Moving to multimodal genre from studies on visual genre
5.2.3 Multimodal genre as foundation for comparison
5.3 Genres of Multimodal Newspaper Texts
5.3.1 Genres of verbal news texts
5.3.2 Op-Ed:a new genre of news texts
5.3.3 Identifying genres of multimodal newspaper texts
5.4 Generic interpretation of image-text complementary news stories and opinions
5.4.1 Generic interpretation of similar features—typography,graphics and layout revealing newspaper’s personality
5.4.2 Generic interpretation of feature differences--verbal text and image differentiating news story genre from opinion genre
5.4.3 Generic interpretation of Rhetorical features
5.5 Summary
Chapter 6 Conclusion
Appendix
Bibliography
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