From Language to Multimodality

Carys Jones is currently Materials Developer at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London. She holds a University of London doctorate in Linguistics in Education and has many publications around issues to do with how language helps learning: the focus of her main research interests. She promotes an SFL approach across different subject disciplines, for teaching and research purposes, in Higher Education Institutions within the UK and beyond. Eija Ventola is Professor of International Business Communication at Aalto University, School of Economics, in Helsinki. Her published work on systemic functional linguistics, discourse analysis and text linguistics includes studies on casual conversations, chats and service encounters of various kinds, as well as developing dynamic modelling of interactional discourse. Her current research and teaching interests include theoretical and applied issues of multisemiotics, for example videoconferencing and internetting, museums and tourism in multimodal and multimedial contexts, and research on globalised language of marketing and business.