Sabine Tan
List of John Benjamins publications in which Sabine Tan is involved.
Articles
2026 Environmental conservation and urban development as competing stories of place and space in Singapore Journal of Language and Politics 25:1, pp. 1–20 | Article
In this paper, we focus on the context of urban development in Singapore, where some of the country’s remaining forests have been earmarked for development, to examine how discourses of development and conservation are semiotized via multimodal representations of the forest landscape in… read more
2021 The Twittering Presidents: An analysis of tweets from @BarackObama and @realDonaldTrump Journal of Language and Politics 20:2, pp. 197–225 | Article
This paper uses a Systemic Functional Multimodal Discourse Analysis (SF-MDA) approach to analyse tweets from the Twitter accounts of Presidents Barack Obama (@Barack Obama) and Donald Trump (@realDonaldTrump). The tweets were posted during the last nine months of President Obama’s effective… read more
2010 Challenges in designing digital interfaces for the study of multimodal phenomena Information Design Journal 18:1, pp. 2–21 | Article
The paper discusses the challenges faced by researchers in developing effective digital interfaces for analyzing the meaning-making processes of multimodal phenomena. The authors propose a social semiotic approach as the underlying theoretical foundation, because interactive digital technology is… read more