1. Appliable Linguistics: an introduction, Ahmar Mahboob & Naomi K. Knight (University of Sydney, Australia) -- 2. Pinpointing the choice: Meaning and the search for equivalents in a translated text, M.A.K. Halliday (University of Sydney, Australia) -- 3. Appliable Linguistics and English Language Teaching: Scaffolding Literacy in Adult and Tertiary Environments (SLATE) project, Ahmar Mahboob, JR Martin, Sally Humphrey & Shoshana Dreyfus (all University of Sydney, Australia) -- 4. Negotiating evaluation: story structure and appraisal in youth justice conferencing, J. R. Martin, Michele Zappavigna & Paul Dwyer (all University of Sydney, Australia) -- 5. Modelling social affiliation and genre in the civic domain, Sally Humphrey (University of Sydney, Australia) -- 6. News and 'register': a preliminary investigation, Annabelle Lukin (Macquarie University, Australia) -- 7. Constructing sports stars: appliable linguistics and the language of the media, Shoshana Dreyfus & Sandra Jones (University of Sydney, Australia) -- 8. Naming culture in convivial conversational humour, Naomi Knight (both University of Sydney, Australia) -- 9. Visualising Appraisal prosody, Michele Zappavigna, Chris Cléirigh, Paul Dwyer & J. R. Martin (all University of Sydney, Australia) -- 10. Evaluative Stance in Humanities: expectations and performances, Erika Matruglio (University of Technology Sydney, Australia) -- 11. The 3x3: setting up a linguistic toolbox for teaching and assessing academic writing, Sally Humphrey, J. R. Martin, Shoshana Dreyfus, & Ahmar Mahboob (all University of Sydney, Australia) -- 12. Why are logical connectives sometimes detrimental to coherence?: Implicit conjunction and causality in scientific and scholarly writing, Alan Jones (Macquarie University, Australia) -- 13. Contestable Reality: a Multi-level view on Modality in Multimodal Pedagogic Context, Yumin Chen (Sun Yat-sen University, China) -- 14. Making many meanings in popular rap music, David Caldwell (University of Sydney, Australia) -- 15. Rank in visual grammar: Some implications for Multimodal Discourse Analysis (MDA), Sumin Zhao (University of Sydney, Australia) -- 16. The meaning of 'not' is not in 'not', Ruqaiya Hasan (Macquarie University, Australia) -- Bibliography -- Index |