This practical analytical guide to classroom languaging dynamics in L2 tertiary classrooms integrates multimodality, sociological theory of education and ecosocial semiotic perspectives. It offers a theoretical and methodological framework for conducting multimodal analysis of meaning-making processes in different pedagogical settings.

Dan Shi is Assistant Professor in Applied Linguistics in the School of Education and English, University of Nottingham Ningbo China. Her research areas include multimodality, distributed language and cognition, Systemic Functional Linguistics, classroom discourse analysis, genre-based pedagogy, sociological theory of education, with her current work on contextualisation, learning styles and scaffolding within L2 contexts to explore the connections between visual, spatial and verbal resources in learners' engagements with texts.

List of Figures; List of Tables; Acknowledgement; Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Languaging Dynamics and Multimodality; Chapter 3 Multimodal Interaction Analysis; Chapter 4 Pedagogic Discourse Structuring and Recontextualization; Chapter 5 Literary Text Recontextualization in Languaging Dynamics I; Chapter 6 Literary Text Recontextualization in Languaging Dynamics II; Chapter 7 Multimodal Sense Making and Embodied Coordination; Chapter 8 Meaning, Consciousness and Identity; Chapter 9 Conclusion; References; Index