Compositional, interpersonal and representational meanings in a children's narrrative. A multimodal discourse analysis

Journal of Pragmatics

Volumn 40, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1601-1619

  Moya Guijarro, Jesús ^a   Pinar Sanz, María Jesús ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CASTILLA LA MANCHA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Compositional features; Experiential meaning; Multimodality; Picture books; Systemic functional grammar; Thematic and topical progression

Indexed keywords

EID: 45849134508     PISSN: 03782166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2008.04.019     Document Type: Article

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