Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction

Frances Christie

Beverly Derewianka

Mary Macken-Horarik

Kay O’Halloran

Clare Painter

Mary Schleppegrell

Diana Slade

Terry Threadgold

Eija Ventola

Discussion

Index

About the Author

Eva Maagerø (born 1951) is professor of Norwegian at University of South-Eastern Norway, Department of Languages and Literature Studies. Her research interests are social semiotics, systemic functional linguistics, multimodality, and literacy. She has published extensively and co-authored Social Semiotics; Key Figures, New Directions (Routledge, 2015).

Ruth Mulvad (born 1948) is former associate professor at National Center for Reading, University Colleges in Denmark. She has researched SFL-based teaching and learning across the curriculum in primary and secondary school and in teacher education. She has published on SFL in education, theoretical texts, and teaching materials.

Elise Seip Tønnessen (born 1951) is Professor Emeritus in Department of Nordic and Media Studies, University of Agder, Norway. Her research interests include literacy, multimodality, and children’s literature and media culture. She has co-edited Multimodality and Aesthetics (Routledge, 2019) and co-authored Social Semiotics; Key Figures, New Directions (Routledge, 2015).

Reviews

"Women in Social Semiotics and SFL- Making a Difference is an inspirational read on the academic possibilities and theoretical power (and perhaps limits) of social semiotics and SFL in the past and in the future. As such, the volume is of interest both to scholars already working in social semiotics and SFL, and to those curious about it. Beyond this, the interviews provide fascinating personal narratives about the interviewees' personal academic trajectories and how these are shaped by the people and the ideas crossing their paths, often in serendipitous ways."
-Lene Nordrum, Language, Context and Text"Women in Social semiotics and SFL shines a spotlight on the careers abd work of nine women who have made pioneering contributions to linguistics, specifically in the area of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) and semiotics more broadly. Directed by scholars from Norway and Denmark - Eva Maagaro, Ruth Mulvad and Elise Seip Tonnessen - the volume is built around a series of interviews with women who have advanced theory and application in research groups ariound the world." - Rebekah Wegener, Paris Lodron University