John A. Bateman

Bateman, John A. 2019 Information design and multimodality: New possibilities for engagement across theory and practice Information Design Journal 25:3, pp. 249–258 | Article

Despite a long association between information design and semiotics, connections remain limited in many respects. This contribution argues that one reason for this is the traditionally weak connection between semiotics and empirical methods. To counter this, a model of multimodal communication is… read more

Bateman, John A. and Chiaoi Tseng 2015 The establishment of interpretative expectations in film Multimodality and Cognitive Linguistics, Pinar Sanz, María Jesús (ed.), pp. 131–146 | Article

In this paper we show that some notions from the textual organisation of verbal texts appear also to give insights to the organisation of films. In particular, the beginnings of films are suggested to operate as indicators of those films’ ‘method of development’ and so serve to set up expectations… read more

Bateman, John A. 2014 Multimodal coherence research and its applications The Pragmatics of Discourse Coherence: Theories and applications, Gruber, Helmut and Gisela Redeker (eds.), pp. 145–177 | Article

Although it is nowadays a commonplace that communicative artefacts and communicative behaviours almost always employ a variety of ‘modes’ of information presentation, the issue of how such diverse contributions ‘cohere’ in order to fulfill common communicative purposes is still an area of open… read more

Bateman, John A. 2013 Die Macht der Schrift: eine angewandte Designforschung. Andreas Koop Information Design Journal 20:3, pp. 290–293 | Review

Bateman, John A. and Chiaoi Tseng 2013 The establishment of interpretative expectations in film Multimodality and Cognitive Linguistics, Pinar Sanz, María Jesús (ed.), pp. 353–368 | Article

In this paper we show that some notions from the textual organisation of verbal texts appear also to give insights to the organisation of films. In particular, the beginnings of films are suggested to operate as indicators of those films’ ‘method of development’ and so serve to set up expectations… read more

Tseng, Chiaoi and John A. Bateman 2010 Chain and choice in filmic narrative: An analysis of multimodal narrative construction in The Fountain Narrative Revisited: Telling a story in the age of new media, Hoffmann, Christian R. (ed.), pp. 213–244 | Article

In this paper, we show how the intersection of chains of multimodal cohesive ties with choices of relations among sequences of filmic units provides a strong foundation for constructing filmic narrative. Until now bridging the gap between narrative concerns and fine-grained analysis of complex… read more

Bateman, John A. 2009 Discourse across semiotic modes Discourse, of Course: An overview of research in discourse studies, Renkema, Jan (ed.), pp. 55–66 | Article

Bateman, John A. 2006 Introduction to discourse studies by Jan Renkema Text features which enable cognitive strategies during text comprehension, Oostendorp, Herre van (ed.), pp. 91–94 | Review

Bateman, John A. 2005 Review of Teich, Rothkegel & Laffling (2003): Cross-Linguistic Variation in System and Text: A methodology for the Investigation of Translations and Comparable Texts Contrast in Context, Aijmer, Karin, Hilde Hasselgård and Stig Johansson (eds.), pp. 165–170 | Review

Bateman, John A. 2004 Review of: "Natural Language Processing for Online Applications: Text retrieval, extraction and categorization" by Peter Jackson and Isabelle Moulinier Information Design Journal 12:1, pp. 85–88 | Review

Bateman, John A., Judy Delin and Renate Henschel 2004 Multimodality and Empiricism: Preparing for a Corpus-based Approach to the Study of Multimodal Meaning-making Perspectives on Multimodality, Ventola, Eija, Cassily Charles and Martin Kaltenbacher (eds.), pp. 65–87 | Article

Delin, Judy, John A. Bateman and Patrick Allen 2003 A model of genre in document layout Information Design Journal 11:1, pp. 54–66 | Article

We present a framework for the describing the genres of illustrated documents, based on analysis at five levels: content structure, rhetorical structure, layout structure, navigation structure, and linguistic structure. We also include three sources of constraints under which a document might be… read more

Delin, Judy and John A. Bateman 2002 Describing and critiquing multimodal documents Document Design 3:2, pp. 140–155 | Article

Bateman, John A. 1998 James R. Martin's English Text: System and Structure Functions of Language 5:2, pp. 213–247 | Review article

Bateman, John A. 1998 Ruqaiya Hasan, Carmel Cloran and David Butt (eds.) Functional Descriptions: Theory in Practice Functions of Language 5:1, pp. 123–125 | To be specified

Bateman, John A. 1996 Review of Paris (1993): User Modelling in Text Generation Functions of Language 3:1, pp. 138–143 | Review

Journal

Information Design Journal (IDJ)

Edited by Maria dos Santos Lonsdale

Articles