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Text-Based Research and Teaching

A Social Semiotic Perspective on Language in Use

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Editors:
  1. Peter Mickan

    1. Faculty of Arts, University of Adelaide Faculty of Arts, Adelaide, Australia

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  2. Elise Lopez

    1. University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia

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  • Brings into focus the extent to which our lives are conducted with different text types for different social purposes
  • Presents current research with documentation of naturally occurring language from across institutions and countries
  • Uses the theoretical framework of Halliday’s Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL)

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Table of contents (20 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiii
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  2. Introduction: Text-Based Research and Teaching

    • Elise Lopez, Peter Mickan
    Pages 1-12

  3. Text-Based Research in Everyday Social Settings

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13
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    2. Text-Based Research and Teaching from a Social Semiotic Perspective: Transformative Research and Pedagogy

      • Peter Mickan
      Pages 15-35

    3. A Month of Climate Change in Australia: A Corpus-Driven Analysis of Media Discourse

      • Elizabeth Robertson Rose
      Pages 37-53

    4. Neoliberal Ideology Only “Partially” to Blame in the Global Financial Crisis? A Critical Discourse Analysis of Alan Greenspan’s Public Discourses on the 2007/8 GFC

      • Coral Campbell
      Pages 55-74

    5. Social Semiotic Multimodal Analysis of Discourse in Banking

      • Amanda Janssen
      Pages 75-95

    6. Locating Multiple Voices in Memoir: Modelling Voice Through Analysis of Interpersonal Linguistic Choices

      • Elise Lopez
      Pages 97-115

    7. The Generic Structure of the Call for Papers of Predatory Journals: A Social Semiotic Perspective

      • Ribut Wahyudi
      Pages 117-136

  4. Text-Based Language Pedagogy

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 137-137
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    2. Talking About Children’s Picture Books: An Analysis of Student Questioning

      • Celine P. Y. Chu
      Pages 139-155

    3. Text-Based Teaching in a Year 8 Chinese Class

      • Maggie Gu
      Pages 157-178

    4. A Socio-Semiotic Perspective on a Unit of Work in an Indonesian Textbook

      • Ruth Widiastuti
      Pages 179-192

    5. The Text-Based Approach in the German as Foreign Language Secondary Classroom

      • Melissa Bond
      Pages 193-219

    6. Spoken Texts in a High-Stakes EFL Test in Korea: Impact on High School English Teaching

      • Jonghee Lee
      Pages 221-238

    7. Text: A Means for Language Socialisation in Communities of Practice

      • Sharif Moghaddam
      Pages 239-261

    8. Self-Learning a Foreign Language Through Literature: A Case-Study of a Self-Learner’s Socialisation into Czech Through Czech Literature

      • Raelke Grimmer
      Pages 263-279

    9. Thematic Options and Success in ESL Writing: An Analysis of Promotional Texts

      • Debbie G. E. Ho
      Pages 281-304

    10. Using Student-Selected Texts in Speaking Classes

      • Hasti Rahmaningtyas, Yusnita Febrianti, Nina Inayati
      Pages 305-323

    11. “Now We Are All Friends:” An Exploratory Action Research Project Examining the Use of a Facebook Group for Language Learning

      • Clare Knox
      Pages 325-340
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About this book

Contributions in this book illustrate the many methods available for researching language in context and for the analysis of everyday text types. Each chapter highlights language as a resource for the expression of meanings—a social semiotic resource. Text analysis is used to reveal our capacity to formulate multiple meanings for participation in different social practices—in relationships, in work, in education and in leisure. The approach is applied in text-based teaching and in the critical analysis of public discourses.  The texts come from different social spheres including banking, language classes, senate hearings, national tests and textbooks, and interior architecture. Text-based research makes a major contribution to Critical Discourse Analysis. The editors and authors of this book demonstrate the value of text analysis for awareness of the role of language for accountable citizenship and for teaching and learning. This book will be of interest to anyone researching in the fields of language learning and teaching, functional linguistics, multimodality, social semiotics, systemic functional linguistics, text-based teaching, and genre analysis, as well as literacy teachers and undergraduate and postgraduate students of linguistics, media and education.

Reviews

“Text-Based Research and Teaching: A Social Semiotic Perspective on Language in Use can provide a new perspective for literacy pedagogy. … This book can enlighten EFL teachers and learners about new prospects for writing, reading, speaking, and listening skills.” (Akiko Nagao, JALT Journal, Vol. 40 (2), November, 2018)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Arts, University of Adelaide Faculty of Arts, Adelaide, Australia

    Peter Mickan

  • University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia

    Elise Lopez

About the editors

Peter Mickan is Visiting Research Fellow in Adelaide University, Australia. His research interests include language learning and teaching, academic literacies, language testing and curriculum design from the perspective of language as a social semiotic. In Language Curriculum Design and Socialisation (2013), Mickan applies systemic functional linguistics to curriculum design and languages pedagogy.


Elise Lopez is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Adelaide. Her dissertation research examines the place of memoir within the SFL framework and its role in shaping patterns of identity and memories of shared experiences.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Text-Based Research and Teaching

  • Book Subtitle: A Social Semiotic Perspective on Language in Use

  • Editors: Peter Mickan, Elise Lopez

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59849-3

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-59848-6Published: 04 January 2017

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-95587-9Published: 12 July 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-59849-3Published: 26 December 2016

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXIII, 372

  • Number of Illustrations: 53 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Semiotics, Discourse Analysis, Sociolinguistics, Semantics, Language Teaching

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