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Abstracts - Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa

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MASAMICHI WASHITAKE, AICHI GAKUIN UNIVERSITYMULTIMODAL COMPARISON OF PRINT-MEDIA NEWS: FRONT-PAGE STORIES INJAPANESE AND ENGLISH NEWSPAPERSThis paper illustrates how print-media news stories in Japanese and English sharemultimo<strong>da</strong>l features from the perspective of Systemic Functional Linguistics. Basedon preceding research on multimo<strong>da</strong>l text analysis (e.g. Baldry and Thibault 2006,Kress and van Leeuwen 2006, Bateman 2008), this paper analyzes a significantnumber of front-page stories written in Japanese (from major papers in Japan) andEnglish (including Australian and American papers) to compare how visualresources such as photographs, tables, and font size are typically exploited.The news stories are analyzed broadly from two aspects: 1) how visual resourcescontribute to their goal and stages (genre), and 2) exploration of fourmetafunctions, i.e. internal relations between participants in visual text(experiential), logical relations between verbal and visual text (logical), socialrelations between rea<strong>de</strong>rs/viewers and text (interpersonal), and visual informationcontributing to textual organization (textual).Finally, typical relationships between the metafunctions and news stories as amultimo<strong>da</strong>l genre in both Japanese and English news stories are discussed andcompared.ReferencesBaldry, A. and Thibault, P.J. (2006) Multimo<strong>da</strong>l Transcription and Text Analysis.London: Equinox.Bateman, J.A. (2008) Multimo<strong>da</strong>lity and Genre: a foun<strong>da</strong>tion for the systemicanalysis of multimo<strong>da</strong>l documents. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.Kress, G. and van Leeuwen, T. (2006) Reading Images: the grammar of visual <strong>de</strong>sign(2nd edition). London and New York: Routledge.PAPER SESSION 1E, ROOM 5 - MONDAY 25 JULYISFC38 Book of <strong>Abstracts</strong> Page 140 Lisbon, July 2011

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