- Multimodality, Intonation, Intonation in english, Intonational Pragmatics, Melodic Intonation Therapy, Focus Intonation, and 43 moreRegister Theory, Written and spoken registers via Systemic-Functional Linguistics, Multimodal Discourse Analysis, Multimodality, Social Semiotics, Multimodal Communication, Multimodal Analysis, Business discourse, Applied Linguistics in Business Discourse and Correspondence, Spoken Business Discourse, Business and Organizational Discourse, Multimodal Human Interaction, Computer-Mediated Discourse Analysis, Visual Social Semiotics, Visual Literacy, Advertising, GENDER AND ADVERTISING, Visual Culture, Critical Discourse Analysis, Poetry, Prosody, Versification, Linguistic approaches to literature, Theories of Free Verse, Intonational Phonology, Phonetics and Phonology, Production and Perception, Rhythm, Prominence, Systemic Functional Grammar, Genre, Multimodal Literacy, Academic Writing, Text Analysis, Emergent Literacy, Multiliteracies, Analyzing Multimodal Texts, Writing systems, Design and Assessment of Educational Material, First Language Acquisition, learning • Ethnography in education, Digital Literacies, New literacy studies, and Digital Mediaedit
- Bradley A. Smith, PhD (Linguistics, Macquarie University), BA (Honours 1st Class, Linguistics, Macquarie University) ... moreBradley A. Smith, PhD (Linguistics, Macquarie University), BA (Honours 1st Class, Linguistics, Macquarie University) has researched, taught, published and presented within the fields of linguistics, learning and teaching in higher education, and multimodal communication studies, in Australia, Singapore, India, China, Indonesia and Spain. He was Research Fellow at the National University of Singapore, and at Curtin University, Australia. He has co-edited two academic volumes, and has had published numerous articles, book chapters and reviews, as well as two co-authored entries in the Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics. He currently runs his own academic editing and consulting business; and is studying a TESOL graduate certificate course through Macquarie University.
His research is primarily in the areas of spoken and written communication, their characteristics and uses within different contexts (e.g. academia, commerce, medicine, politics), and the implications of the shift from spoken to written modes of communication, particularly within the digital age.edit - PhD supervisors: Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen, William S. Greaves, Alison R. Mooreedit
The talking book is a type of assistive technology where original print text is audio recorded and marked-up in order to make it accessible for people with print-disabilities, such as visual impairments or dyslexia. In this pilot study,... more
The talking book is a type of assistive technology where original print text is audio recorded and marked-up in order to make it accessible for people with print-disabilities, such as visual impairments or dyslexia. In this pilot study, we explore the implications of remediating a written text, the script of Shakespeare’s King Lear, into spoken text. We compare two readings of the play: a talking book version; and a commercial audiobook recording. We examine intonation choices in an excerpt from the play in the two readings. The analysis shows significant variation in choices of intonation, and thus the meanings that are produced in the two versions, resulting in not one but two King Lear plays. One implication of such variation might be that different styles of narration demand different ways of reading. The results point to the need to explore how intonation makes meaning for actual talking book readers in situ, where meaning-potentials are realised through the interaction and encounter between the text, the reader(s), the social settings in which they are reading, and the material properties of talking books.
