People : Visiting Professors
Anthony Baldry
Anthony
Baldry is Professor of English Linguistics at the Faculty of
Political Sciences, University of of Messina, Italy. He has
published widely in the field of multimodal analysis, most particularly
in multimodal transcription and text analysis, and corpus-based
approaches to multimodal discourse analysis. Working with computer
scientists over the last 25 years, he has developed various software
systems for research and teaching purposes, including the MCA system
for the construction and analysis of corpora based on digital media,
films and websites in particular.
Kevin Judd
Kevin
Judd is Associate Professor in the School of Mathematics and
Statistics at the University of Western Australia. Kevin
is a mathematician who works in the area of dynamical systems theory,
optimization and computer aided teaching. He is the computer programmer
who developed Systemics
1.0, software for linguistic analysis of text.
Jim Martin
Jim
Martin is Professor of Linguistics (Personal Chair) at the
University of Sydney. His research interests include systemic theory,
functional grammar, discourse semantics, register, genre, multimodality
and critical discourse analysis, with special reference to the
transdisciplinary fields of educational linguistics and social
semiotics.
Michael O'Toole
Michael
O’Toole is Emeritus Professor of Communication Studies at Murdoch
University in Perth,Western Australia. His book The Language
of Displayed Art (1994) was a pioneering attempt to apply the
theory and methods of systemic linguistics to the semiotic analysis
of the visual arts. Since then he has published studies of paintings
(Rembrandt, Seurat, Magritte, Julie Dowling), buildings (Sydney Opera
House, domestic architecture) and sculpture. As a specialist in literary
stylistics, he has also studied the multimodal interplay of verbal
and graphic texts in paintings, news articles and advertisements.
Paul Thibault
Paul
Thibault is Professor of Linguistics and Media Communication
at Agder University, Kristiansand, Norway. His research interests
include cognition and technology in relation to the body-brain
complex in human communication, grammar and semantics, discourse
analysis, semiotics, philosophical questions in relation to language
and communication, multimodal analysis and information technology.
Eija Ventola
Eija
Ventola is Professor of English Philology in Department of
English at the University of Helsinki. She has published
widely in social semiotics, systemic functional linguistics, discourse
analysis, text linguistics, multimodality and translation studies.
She has worked to develop new research methods and practical applications
in applied linguistics, discourse analysis and multimodal analysis.
