J. R. Martin is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Sydney, Australia. Monika Bednarek is a Lecturer in Linguistics at the University of Sydney, Australia.

• Notes on Contributors; 1. Semantic Variation: Modelling System, Text and Affiliation in Social Semiosis J. R. Martin; 2. Wrinkling Complexity: Concepts of Identity and Affiliation in Humour Naomi Knight; 3. Making Metre Mean: Identity and Affiliation in the Rap Music of Kanye West David Caldwell; 4. Khao naa nung: A Multimodal Analysis of Thai-language Newspaper Front Pages John Knox, Pattama Patpong and Yupaporn Piriyasilpa; 5. Doubling-up: Allusion and Bonding in Multisemiotic News Stories Helen Caple; 6. Playing with 'femininity': An Inter-modal Analysis of Bilingual picture book The Ballad of Mulan Ping Tian; 7. Imagining Communities: A Multifunctional Approach to Identity Management in texts Ken Tann; 8. Intersemiotic Relations as Logogenetic Patterns: Towards the Restoration of the Time Dimension in Hypertext Description Sumin Zhao; 9. The Coupling of Gesture and Phonology Michele Zappavigna, Chris Cleirigh, Paul Dwyer and JR. Martin; 10. Corpus Linguistics and Systemic Functional Linguistics: Interpersonal meaning, Identity and Bonding in Popular Culture Monika Bednarek; Index.

"This book, by a group of highly talented young scholars, gives us a glimpse of what multimodal discourse analysis might come to look like in the first half of the 21st century." - Professor Theo van Leeuwen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Bednarek's volume is a welcome corpus-assisted contribution to the study of television from which scholars and students of linguistics, media and cultural studies will much benefit. Informative, clear and subtle it is a very pleasant read for the corpus neophyte and for the corpus linguist alike. Applied Linguistics