Bill Cope and Mary Kalantzis

This paper analyzes the scope of Artificial Intelligence (AI) from the perspective of a multimodal grammar. Its focal point is Generative AI, a technology that puts so-called Large Language Models to work. The first...More

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The publication of Making Sense (MS) and Adding Sense(AS) is the result of an ambitious project by Bill Cope and Mary Kalantzis. It is a monumental piece of work, divided into two volumes, ... [covering[ a wide range of subjects a...More

Speech and writing are different in the very processes of their representation and communication. Their grammars, M.A.K. Hallidaysays, are fundamentally different. Speech, he says, strings information units one after the other, connecting them...More

Some linguists claim to have found languages that do not have distinct classes of nouns and verbs. Leonard Bloomfieldworked for two years with Alfredo Viola Santiago, a Tagalog speaker and Filipino architectural engineering student at the Universit...More

Here is not-real (or, if “real,” then in a qualitatively different, indeed paradoxical, kind of way): zero,“no”/“not” (text); something notably out-of-the picture (image) or missing (object); emptiness (space); a poignant non-presence (body); sil...More

“Alone of all her sex”she was, Mary mother of Christ, the sole virgin mother, impossible except for God. So she was declared to be by the Council of Ephesus in 431, not mere Χριστοτόκος or “Christ-bearer,” because that would be to diminish the divi...More

Making Sense (MS) and its companion volume, Adding Sense (AS), is a grammar of multimodal meaning. In this grammar of multimodality, meaning is seen as part of our life in what we see, hear, understand or express

[T]he most striking feature...More

In image, the excess of the ideal arises experientially in the difference between seeing with the body’s eye (perceiving), and seeing with the mind’s eye (envisioning). Take the Eiffel Tower, says philosopher Colin McGinn in his book, Mindsight.If...More

In the world of Symbol – the only one that signifies – Sign and Speech in grand array, with Talk, Scribble, and a crowd of little Letters and Syllables arranged in groups, a few Colons and Commas curling and dotting gaily about, and a pompous Full S...More