Language, Identity and Cycling in the New Media Age Exploring Interp
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Patrick Kiernan
Language, Identity and Cycling in the New Media Age
Patrick Kiernan
Language, Identity and Cycling in the New Media Age Exploring Interpersonal Semiotics in Multimodal Media and Online Texts
Patrick Kiernan School of Business Administration Meiji University Tokyo, Japan
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Preface
While I was working on the studies presented in this book, the Japan Association of Systemic Functional Linguists (JASFL) held its Twentieth Annual Autumn Conference and invited Professor Christian Matthiessen to speak. In introducing Professor Matthiessen at the conference, our association’s president, Professor Tatsuki, noted that he had asked our guest if he had any hobbies, to which he had immediately replied, ‘Linguistics’. This reply was certainly indicative of the degree to which the most prominent scholars in systemic functional linguistics (SFL) have dedicated themselves to the field. Indeed, for someone so representative of SFL scholarship, it could perhaps only diminish this identity if he had admitted to an interest in a subject unrelated to his dedication to exploring language. Yet, hearing this, I was secretly mortified that by r
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