Anne McCabe is Assistant Professor and Head of ESL in the Department of English and Communication at Saint Louis University, Madrid, Spain. Mick O'Donnell is Research Fellow in the Department of Informatics at the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain. Rachel Whittaker is Lecturer in the Department of English at the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain.

• 1. An introduction to language and literacy, Rachel Whittaker, Anne McCabe and Mick O'Donnell; Part I: Multimodality and Education; 2. Meaning, learning and representation in a Social Semiotic approach to Multimodal Communication, Gunther Kress; 3. Children's picture book narratives. reading sequences of images, Clare Painter; 4. Popular culture in the classroom: interpreting and creating multimodal texts, Katina Zammit; 5. Systemic Functional Multimodal Discourse Analysis approach to mathematics, grammar and literacy, Kay O'Halloran; 6. Multiliteracies for academic purposes: multimodality in textbook and computer-based learning materials in science at university, Janet Jones; Part II: Discourse Analysis and Education; 7. Applying a Critical Systemic-Functional Literacy Frame in a UK secondary education context, David Hyatt; 8. Using Appraisal Theory to track interpersonal development in adolescent academic writing, Beverly Derewianka; 9. Constructing an effective 'voice' in academic discussion writing: an appraisal theory perspective, Elizabeth Swain; 10. Arguing in and across disciplinary boundaries: legitimising strategies in applied linguistics and cultural studies, Susan Hood; 11. On the 'internal dialogue' between an examination task and pre-university students' responses, Bodil Hedeboe; 12. A discourse analytical study of decontextualization and literacy, Inger Lassen; Part III: Corpus Linguistics and Education; 13. Exposure, expectations and probabilities: implications for language learning, Gordon Tucker; 14. Grammar patterns and literacy, Susan Hunston.

"Demonstates that researchers have made important developments in the understanding of language and meaning production. Its primary audience might be that of the language research community of practice, the book is recommended for all those researchers worried about increasing the dialogue between knowledge about the way we learn, produce, and distribute texts through our pedagogical practices in our highly multimodal contemporary society." Discourse and Society