Eija Ventola

List of John Benjamins publications in which Eija Ventola is involved.

Titles

Perspectives on Multimodality

Edited by Eija Ventola, Cassily Charles and Martin Kaltenbacher

This volume sign posts several paths of multimodality research and theory-building today. The chapters represent a cross-section of current perspectives on multimodal discourse with a special focus on theoretical and methodological issues (mode hierarchies, modelling semiotic resources as multiple… read more

[Document Design Companion Series, 6] 2004. x, 249 pp.

Coherence in Spoken and Written Discourse: How to create it and how to describe it. Selected papers from the International Workshop on Coherence, Augsburg, 24-27 April 1997

Edited by Wolfram Bublitz, Uta Lenk and Eija Ventola

Until very recently, coherence (unlike cohesion) was widely held to be a ‘rather mystical notion’. However, taking account of new trends representing a considerable shift in orientation, this volume aims at helping relieve coherence of its mystifying aura. The general bibliography which concludes… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 63] 1999. xiv, 300 pp.

Academic Writing: Intercultural and textual issues

Edited by Eija Ventola and Anna Mauranen

Writing is crucial to the academic world. It is the main mode of communication among scientists and scholars and also a means for students for obtaining their degrees. The papers in this volume highlight the intercultural, generic and textual complexities of academic writing. Comparisons are made… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 41] 1996. xiv, 258 pp.

Articles (10) | Order by:

Muntigl, Peter and Eija Ventola 2010 Grammar: A neglected resource in interaction analysis? New Adventures in Language and Interaction, Streeck, Jürgen (ed.), pp. 99–124 | Article

Our aim in this paper is to explore the variety of ways in which grammar can be used as a resource for interaction. We propose that a grammatical analysis of social interaction needs to take two perspectives into account. The first involves showing how the meaning of a grammatical unit depends on… read more

Hofinger, Andrea and Eija Ventola 2004 Multimodality in Operation: Language and Picture in a Museum Perspectives on Multimodality, Ventola, Eija, Cassily Charles and Martin Kaltenbacher (eds.), pp. 193–209 | Article

Ventola, Eija and Martin Kaltenbacher 2004 Introduction Perspectives on Multimodality, Ventola, Eija, Cassily Charles and Martin Kaltenbacher (eds.), pp. 1–6 | Miscellaneous

Ventola, Eija 1999 Semiotic Spanning at Conferences: Cohesion and Coherence in and across Conference Papers and their Discussions Coherence in Spoken and Written Discourse: How to create it and how to describe it, Bublitz, Wolfram, Uta Lenk and Eija Ventola (eds.), pp. 101–124 | Article

Ventola, Eija 1998 Interpersonal choices in academic work Linguistic Choice across Genres: Variation in spoken and written English, Sánchez-Macarro, Antonia and Ronald Carter (eds.), pp. 117–136 | Article

Ventola, Eija 1996 Packing and Unpacking of Information in Academic Texts Academic Writing: Intercultural and textual issues, Ventola, Eija and Anna Mauranen (eds.), pp. 153–194 | Article

Ventola, Eija 1994 From Syntax to Text: Problems in Producing Scientific Abstracts in L₂ The Syntax of Sentence and Text: A Festschrift for František Daneš, Čmejrková, Svĕtla and František Štícha (eds.), pp. 283–306 | Article

Ventola, Eija 1994 Finnish writers' academic English: Problems with reference and theme Functions of Language 1:2, pp. 261–293 | Article

The paper illustrates how many Finnish writers tend to have difficulties coding references to text participants appropriately in their English texts. When organising their texts thematically, Finnish writers also appear to apply thematic patterns which are not typical of English texts. In addition,… read more

Ventola, Eija 1994 Tim R. Gibson. Towards a Discourse Theory of Abstracts and Abstracting Functions of Language 1:1, pp. 160–161 | To be specified

Ventola, Eija 1990 Linguistic Difficulties in Institutional Discourse Learning, Keeping and Using Language: Selected papers from the Eighth World Congress of Applied Linguistics, Sydney, 16–21 August 1987, Halliday, M.A.K. †, John Gibbons and Howard Nicholas (eds.), pp. 493–508 | Article