Multisemiotic analysis – theoretical developments and

application
November 30th Room 106

The presentation discusses some recent theoretical developments within

Hallidayan systemic-functional linguistics (SFL) and the expansion of
the SFL theory from traditional linguistic and discourse issues to
consideration of the meaning-making semiotics as a combination and
negotiation between different modal realisations.

Eija Ventola is Professor of English Philology in Department of English at the

University of Helsinki. She has published widely in social semiotics, systemic
functional linguistics, discourse analysis, text linguistics, multimodality and translation
studies. She has worked to develop new research methods and practical applications in
applied linguistics, discourse analysis and multimodal analysis.