Words, Pictures, and Facts in Academic Discourse

Keywords

Languages for Academic Practices
academic discourse
multi-modality
visual elements
images
lenguas para la práctica académica
discurso académico
multimodalidad
elementos visuales
imágenes

How to Cite

Myers, G. (2003). Words, Pictures, and Facts in Academic Discourse. Ibérica, (6), 3–13. Retrieved from https://www.revistaiberica.org/index.php/iberica/article/view/482

Abstract

Researchers in Languages for Academic Practices are used to dealing with verbal texts of many sorts: exams, textbooks, lab notebooks, essays, and lectures. But academic discourse is increasingly multi-modal, incorporating various visual as well as verbal texts, including photographs, diagrams, outputs of imaging devices, and even cartoons. Some of these pictures are for entertainment, but some play a key role in establishing facts, for students or for scientific researchers themselves. Most research on images in discourse analysis has taken a semiotic approach, treating the pictures as a form of language. Recently, researchers have begun to look at the practices of production, distribution, and interpretation of images, as well as looking at the texts themselves. The focus on practices has implications both for researchers on academic discourse and for teachers of academic discourse and their students

Copyright (c) 2003 Greg Myers

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