Words, Pictures, and Facts in Academic Discourse

Abstract

Researchers in Languages for Academic Practices are used to dealing with verbal texts of\nmany sorts: exams, textbooks, lab notebooks, essays, and lectures. But academic discourse\nis increasingly multi-modal, incorporating various visual as well as verbal texts, including\nphotographs, diagrams, outputs of imaging devices, and even cartoons. Some of these\npictures are for entertainment, but some play a key role in establishing facts, for students\nor for scientific researchers themselves. Most research on images in discourse analysis has\ntaken a semiotic approach, treating the pictures as a form of language. Recently,\nresearchers have begun to look at the practices of production, distribution, and\ninterpretation of images, as well as looking at the texts themselves. The focus on practices\nhas implications both for researchers on academic discourse and for teachers of academic\ndiscourse and their students

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