Sabine Tan
Biographic Data
| ID | 3920286 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sabine Tan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sabine |
| FAMILY NAME | Tan |
| SIGNATURE | TAN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Curtin University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1244-4077 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 71 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Contrasting the Pragmatics of Spanishes
This special issue explores contrastive pragmatics with a focus on Spanish in comparison with other languages and varieties. The collection assembles studies comparing Spanish with Chinese, Greek, English, French, and Italian, as well as investigations of pragmatic variation across different varieties of Spanish. The contributions examine a diverse range of pragmatic phenomena, including humour, impoliteness, aggression, mitigation, requests, com…
Environmental conservation and urban development as competing stories of place and space in Singapore
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 environmental communication. To show how these discourses interact, we use one of the forests identified for development, Dover Forest, as a case study, employing…
Semiotic representations of neoliberal dystopia in Black Mirror
Neoliberalism as phenomenon has been noted for its pervasiveness, persistence and negative impact in society. The uncertainty, pessimism and tension associated with neoliberal societies have found expression in popular culture entertainment, more specifically in dystopic depictions of societies influenced by neoliberal logic. These dystopic presentations offer fantastical depictions as allegories, holding up our current realities for critique. Wh…
Managing higher education and neoliberal marketing discourses on Why Choose webpages for international students on Australian and British university websites
International education is impacted by multiple discourses, in particular the discourse of university as an educational institution responsible for producing and curating knowledge for the public good, pursuing truth and transforming student life, and the neoliberal marketing discourse which portrays the university as a business organization providing a service for international students as customers/consumers. Following a multimodal discourse an…
Discourses, Modes, Media, and Meaning in an Era of Pandemic: A Multimodal Discourse Analysis Approach
The Twittering Presidents: An analysis of tweets from @BarackObama and @realDonaldTrump
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 presidency and the first nine months of President Trump’s presidency. The tweets are analysed using automated text analysis which is interpreted through an SF…
Scaffolding CLIL in the science classroom via visual thinking: A systemic functional multimodal approach
Addressing international students on Australian and Chinese university webpages: A comparative study
Analyzing the talking book Imagine a world: A multimodal approach to English language learning in a multilingual context
In recent years there has been increased academic and professional interest and awareness in approaches to English language teaching (ELT) that take a plurilingual approach. This is often combined with a multimodal stance. The outcome of this combination is an approach to English language teaching that integrates multiple languages and multiple semiotic resources. This paper examines how a plurilingual approach to ELT can be viewed through a mult…
Semiotic space invasion: The case of Donald Trump's US presidential campaign
This paper uses a social semiotic perspective to analyze Donald Trump's domination of media coverage of the US presidential campaign from 16 June 2015, when he announced his candidacy for nomination as the Republican candidate until 8 November 2016, when he was elected as President of the United States. The paper argues that one of the keys to Donald Trump's domination of media coverage was that, in presenting himself and his agenda, he foregroun…
Interpreting Text and Image Relations in Violent Extremist Discourse: A Mixed Methods Approach for Big Data Analytics
This article presents a mixed methods approach for analysing text and image relations in violent extremist discourse. The approach involves integrating multimodal discourse analysis with data mining and information visualisation, resulting in theoretically informed empirical techniques for automated analysis of text and image relations in large datasets. The approach is illustrated by a study which aims to analyse how violent extremist groups use…
Doing critical discourse studies with multimodality: From metafunctions to materiality’ by Per Ledin and David Machin
No Abstract Available
A multimodal approach to visual thinking: The scientific sketchnote
There is a growing interest in the use of visual thinking techniques for promoting conceptual thinking in problem solving tasks as well as for reducing the complexity of ideas expressed in scientific and technical formats. The products of visual thinking, such as sketchnotes, graphics and diagrams, consist of ‘multimodal complexes’ that combine language, images, mathematical symbolism and various other semiotic resources. This article adopts a so…
Natural Language Understanding and Multimodal Discourse Analysis for Interpreting Extremist Communications and the Re-Use of These Materials Online
This paper reports on a study that is part of a project which aims to develop a multimodal analytical approach for big data analytics, initially in the context of violent extremism. The findings reported here tested the application of natural language processing models to the text of a sample of articles from the online magazines Dabiq and Rumiyah, produced by the Islamic extremist organisation ISIS. For comparison, text of articles found by reve…
A multimodal mixed methods approach for examining recontextualisation patterns of violent extremist images in online media
Under the shade of AK47s: A multimodal approach to violent extremist recruitment strategies for foreign fighters
Two notable features of the current conflict in Syria and Iraq are the number of foreign fighters from western countries fighting for Sunni militant organisations, and the use of the Internet and social media by some extremist groups to disseminate propaganda material. This article explores how the group which refers to itself as Islamic State and an affiliated British group, Rayat al Tawheed, deploy combinations of images and text which serve as…
Where Do I Come From? Metaphors in Sex Education Picture Books for Young Children in China
This study examines the types of verbal, pictorial, and multimodal metaphors in the genre of sex education picture books for young children in Mainland China. Although being an educational discourse genre that is essentially concerned with transmitting scientific facts, sex education picture books employ a range of metaphors that categorize and construe the biological knowledge of human reproduction in a way that not only facilitates young childr…
Violent extremism and iconisation: Commanding good and forbidding evil
This study employs a multimodal social semiotic approach to the analysis of text and image relations in material produced by the violent extremist organisation known as Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS). The study focuses on iconisation, where meanings are condensed and interpersonally charged through ‘bonding icons’ which embody the organisation's world view and values. A sample of issues in the online magazine Dabiq produced by ISIS are …
A Digital Mixed Methods Research Design: Integrating Multimodal Analysis With Data Mining and Information Visualization for Big Data Analytics
This article demonstrates how a digital environment offers new opportunities for transforming qualitative data into quantitative data in order to use data mining and information visualization for mixed methods research. The digital approach to mixed methods research is illustrated by a framework which combines qualitative methods of multimodal discourse analysis with quantitative methods of data mining and information visualization in a multileve…
From book to stage to screen: Semiotic transformations of Gothic horror genre conventions
This paper adopts a multimodal social semiotic approach for exploring the semiotic changes involved in the transformation of a novel into stage and screen productions. It examines how semiotic resources are deployed in each medium through elements of mise-en-scène, such as speech, music, sound, lighting, props, staging, and cinematographic techniques, and the viewing perspectives that are thus established for audiences. The genre of Gothic horror…
Representing sexuality and morality in sex education picture books in contemporary China
This study conducts a social semiotic analysis of six sex education picture books for preschool children in the People’s Republic of China. Following van Leeuwen’s framework for analysing the discursive construction of social actors, this paper examines two types of social actors directly associated with the education of human sexuality: the physical body of human beings and the institutional, disciplinary body of the family. The analysis of the …
Multimodal digital semiotics: The interaction of language with other resources
A “multimodal digital semiotics” approach, involving the development and use of interactive digital media technology, mathematical techniques of analysis and scientific visualization for modeling and analyzing multimodal phenomena, is demonstrated through the analysis of an interview between a climate scientist and a climate denialist on Fox News. Prototype software for multimodal analysis and network visualizations are used in combination with A…
Multimodal analysis within an interactive software environment: Critical discourse perspectives
Critical discourse analysts are increasingly required to account for multimodal phenomena constructed through language and other resources (e.g. images, sound and music) and to relate high-level critical insights on the social motivations of these texts to their realizations in low-level expressive phenomena, and vice versa. In this paper, we use interactive software resources for critical multimodal discourse analysis (O'Halloran, K.L. (2011b). …
Analysing multimodality in an interactive digital environment: Software as a meta-semiotic tool
10.1080/10350330.2011.564386
Modelling engagement in a web-based advertising campaign
This article explores the application of APPRAISAL theory, or more specifically, its subcategory ENGAGEMENT, to the analysis of an internet-based advertising campaign, from the viewpoint of dialogicity, heteroglossia and intertextuality, and its role in positioning readers within the heteroglossic diversity of hypermedia discourse. The author’s close analysis demonstrates that ENGAGEMENT can be used as an analytic tool to explore the question of …
A Digital Mixed Methods Research Design: Integrating Multimodal Analysis With Data Mining and Information Visualization for Big Data Analytics
This article demonstrates how a digital environment offers new opportunities for transforming qualitative data into quantitative data in order to use data mining and information visualization for mixed methods research. The digital approach to mixed methods research is illustrated by a framework which combines qualitative methods of multimodal discourse analysis with quantitative methods of data mining and information visualization in a multileve…
Violent extremism and iconisation: Commanding good and forbidding evil
This study employs a multimodal social semiotic approach to the analysis of text and image relations in material produced by the violent extremist organisation known as Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS). The study focuses on iconisation, where meanings are condensed and interpersonally charged through ‘bonding icons’ which embody the organisation's world view and values. A sample of issues in the online magazine Dabiq produced by ISIS are …
Multimodal analysis within an interactive software environment: Critical discourse perspectives
Critical discourse analysts are increasingly required to account for multimodal phenomena constructed through language and other resources (e.g. images, sound and music) and to relate high-level critical insights on the social motivations of these texts to their realizations in low-level expressive phenomena, and vice versa. In this paper, we use interactive software resources for critical multimodal discourse analysis (O'Halloran, K.L. (2011b). …
Under the shade of AK47s: A multimodal approach to violent extremist recruitment strategies for foreign fighters
Two notable features of the current conflict in Syria and Iraq are the number of foreign fighters from western countries fighting for Sunni militant organisations, and the use of the Internet and social media by some extremist groups to disseminate propaganda material. This article explores how the group which refers to itself as Islamic State and an affiliated British group, Rayat al Tawheed, deploy combinations of images and text which serve as…
Representing sexuality and morality in sex education picture books in contemporary China
This study conducts a social semiotic analysis of six sex education picture books for preschool children in the People’s Republic of China. Following van Leeuwen’s framework for analysing the discursive construction of social actors, this paper examines two types of social actors directly associated with the education of human sexuality: the physical body of human beings and the institutional, disciplinary body of the family. The analysis of the …
Interpreting Text and Image Relations in Violent Extremist Discourse: A Mixed Methods Approach for Big Data Analytics
This article presents a mixed methods approach for analysing text and image relations in violent extremist discourse. The approach involves integrating multimodal discourse analysis with data mining and information visualisation, resulting in theoretically informed empirical techniques for automated analysis of text and image relations in large datasets. The approach is illustrated by a study which aims to analyse how violent extremist groups use…
Analysing multimodality in an interactive digital environment: Software as a meta-semiotic tool
10.1080/10350330.2011.564386
The Twittering Presidents: An analysis of tweets from @BarackObama and @realDonaldTrump
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 presidency and the first nine months of President Trump’s presidency. The tweets are analysed using automated text analysis which is interpreted through an SF…
Natural Language Understanding and Multimodal Discourse Analysis for Interpreting Extremist Communications and the Re-Use of These Materials Online
This paper reports on a study that is part of a project which aims to develop a multimodal analytical approach for big data analytics, initially in the context of violent extremism. The findings reported here tested the application of natural language processing models to the text of a sample of articles from the online magazines Dabiq and Rumiyah, produced by the Islamic extremist organisation ISIS. For comparison, text of articles found by reve…
From book to stage to screen: Semiotic transformations of Gothic horror genre conventions
This paper adopts a multimodal social semiotic approach for exploring the semiotic changes involved in the transformation of a novel into stage and screen productions. It examines how semiotic resources are deployed in each medium through elements of mise-en-scène, such as speech, music, sound, lighting, props, staging, and cinematographic techniques, and the viewing perspectives that are thus established for audiences. The genre of Gothic horror…
Addressing international students on Australian and Chinese university webpages: A comparative study
Semiotic space invasion: The case of Donald Trump's US presidential campaign
This paper uses a social semiotic perspective to analyze Donald Trump's domination of media coverage of the US presidential campaign from 16 June 2015, when he announced his candidacy for nomination as the Republican candidate until 8 November 2016, when he was elected as President of the United States. The paper argues that one of the keys to Donald Trump's domination of media coverage was that, in presenting himself and his agenda, he foregroun…
Doing critical discourse studies with multimodality: From metafunctions to materiality’ by Per Ledin and David Machin
No Abstract Available
A multimodal approach to visual thinking: The scientific sketchnote
There is a growing interest in the use of visual thinking techniques for promoting conceptual thinking in problem solving tasks as well as for reducing the complexity of ideas expressed in scientific and technical formats. The products of visual thinking, such as sketchnotes, graphics and diagrams, consist of ‘multimodal complexes’ that combine language, images, mathematical symbolism and various other semiotic resources. This article adopts a so…
Modelling engagement in a web-based advertising campaign
This article explores the application of APPRAISAL theory, or more specifically, its subcategory ENGAGEMENT, to the analysis of an internet-based advertising campaign, from the viewpoint of dialogicity, heteroglossia and intertextuality, and its role in positioning readers within the heteroglossic diversity of hypermedia discourse. The author’s close analysis demonstrates that ENGAGEMENT can be used as an analytic tool to explore the question of …
A multimodal mixed methods approach for examining recontextualisation patterns of violent extremist images in online media
Modelling engagement in a web-based advertising campaign
This article explores the application of APPRAISAL theory, or more specifically, its subcategory ENGAGEMENT, to the analysis of an internet-based advertising campaign, from the viewpoint of dialogicity, heteroglossia and intertextuality, and its role in positioning readers within the heteroglossic diversity of hypermedia discourse. The author’s close analysis demonstrates that ENGAGEMENT can be used as an analytic tool to explore the question of …
Multimodal analysis within an interactive software environment: Critical discourse perspectives
Critical discourse analysts are increasingly required to account for multimodal phenomena constructed through language and other resources (e.g. images, sound and music) and to relate high-level critical insights on the social motivations of these texts to their realizations in low-level expressive phenomena, and vice versa. In this paper, we use interactive software resources for critical multimodal discourse analysis (O'Halloran, K.L. (2011b). …
Analysing multimodality in an interactive digital environment: Software as a meta-semiotic tool
10.1080/10350330.2011.564386
Multimodal digital semiotics: The interaction of language with other resources
A “multimodal digital semiotics” approach, involving the development and use of interactive digital media technology, mathematical techniques of analysis and scientific visualization for modeling and analyzing multimodal phenomena, is demonstrated through the analysis of an interview between a climate scientist and a climate denialist on Fox News. Prototype software for multimodal analysis and network visualizations are used in combination with A…
Where Do I Come From? Metaphors in Sex Education Picture Books for Young Children in China
This study examines the types of verbal, pictorial, and multimodal metaphors in the genre of sex education picture books for young children in Mainland China. Although being an educational discourse genre that is essentially concerned with transmitting scientific facts, sex education picture books employ a range of metaphors that categorize and construe the biological knowledge of human reproduction in a way that not only facilitates young childr…
Violent extremism and iconisation: Commanding good and forbidding evil
This study employs a multimodal social semiotic approach to the analysis of text and image relations in material produced by the violent extremist organisation known as Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS). The study focuses on iconisation, where meanings are condensed and interpersonally charged through ‘bonding icons’ which embody the organisation's world view and values. A sample of issues in the online magazine Dabiq produced by ISIS are …
A Digital Mixed Methods Research Design: Integrating Multimodal Analysis With Data Mining and Information Visualization for Big Data Analytics
This article demonstrates how a digital environment offers new opportunities for transforming qualitative data into quantitative data in order to use data mining and information visualization for mixed methods research. The digital approach to mixed methods research is illustrated by a framework which combines qualitative methods of multimodal discourse analysis with quantitative methods of data mining and information visualization in a multileve…
From book to stage to screen: Semiotic transformations of Gothic horror genre conventions
This paper adopts a multimodal social semiotic approach for exploring the semiotic changes involved in the transformation of a novel into stage and screen productions. It examines how semiotic resources are deployed in each medium through elements of mise-en-scène, such as speech, music, sound, lighting, props, staging, and cinematographic techniques, and the viewing perspectives that are thus established for audiences. The genre of Gothic horror…
Representing sexuality and morality in sex education picture books in contemporary China
This study conducts a social semiotic analysis of six sex education picture books for preschool children in the People’s Republic of China. Following van Leeuwen’s framework for analysing the discursive construction of social actors, this paper examines two types of social actors directly associated with the education of human sexuality: the physical body of human beings and the institutional, disciplinary body of the family. The analysis of the …
A multimodal mixed methods approach for examining recontextualisation patterns of violent extremist images in online media
Under the shade of AK47s: A multimodal approach to violent extremist recruitment strategies for foreign fighters
Two notable features of the current conflict in Syria and Iraq are the number of foreign fighters from western countries fighting for Sunni militant organisations, and the use of the Internet and social media by some extremist groups to disseminate propaganda material. This article explores how the group which refers to itself as Islamic State and an affiliated British group, Rayat al Tawheed, deploy combinations of images and text which serve as…
Doing critical discourse studies with multimodality: From metafunctions to materiality’ by Per Ledin and David Machin
No Abstract Available
A multimodal approach to visual thinking: The scientific sketchnote
There is a growing interest in the use of visual thinking techniques for promoting conceptual thinking in problem solving tasks as well as for reducing the complexity of ideas expressed in scientific and technical formats. The products of visual thinking, such as sketchnotes, graphics and diagrams, consist of ‘multimodal complexes’ that combine language, images, mathematical symbolism and various other semiotic resources. This article adopts a so…
Natural Language Understanding and Multimodal Discourse Analysis for Interpreting Extremist Communications and the Re-Use of These Materials Online
This paper reports on a study that is part of a project which aims to develop a multimodal analytical approach for big data analytics, initially in the context of violent extremism. The findings reported here tested the application of natural language processing models to the text of a sample of articles from the online magazines Dabiq and Rumiyah, produced by the Islamic extremist organisation ISIS. For comparison, text of articles found by reve…
Analyzing the talking book Imagine a world: A multimodal approach to English language learning in a multilingual context
In recent years there has been increased academic and professional interest and awareness in approaches to English language teaching (ELT) that take a plurilingual approach. This is often combined with a multimodal stance. The outcome of this combination is an approach to English language teaching that integrates multiple languages and multiple semiotic resources. This paper examines how a plurilingual approach to ELT can be viewed through a mult…
Semiotic space invasion: The case of Donald Trump's US presidential campaign
This paper uses a social semiotic perspective to analyze Donald Trump's domination of media coverage of the US presidential campaign from 16 June 2015, when he announced his candidacy for nomination as the Republican candidate until 8 November 2016, when he was elected as President of the United States. The paper argues that one of the keys to Donald Trump's domination of media coverage was that, in presenting himself and his agenda, he foregroun…
Interpreting Text and Image Relations in Violent Extremist Discourse: A Mixed Methods Approach for Big Data Analytics
This article presents a mixed methods approach for analysing text and image relations in violent extremist discourse. The approach involves integrating multimodal discourse analysis with data mining and information visualisation, resulting in theoretically informed empirical techniques for automated analysis of text and image relations in large datasets. The approach is illustrated by a study which aims to analyse how violent extremist groups use…
Scaffolding CLIL in the science classroom via visual thinking: A systemic functional multimodal approach
Addressing international students on Australian and Chinese university webpages: A comparative study
The Twittering Presidents: An analysis of tweets from @BarackObama and @realDonaldTrump
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 presidency and the first nine months of President Trump’s presidency. The tweets are analysed using automated text analysis which is interpreted through an SF…
Managing higher education and neoliberal marketing discourses on Why Choose webpages for international students on Australian and British university websites
International education is impacted by multiple discourses, in particular the discourse of university as an educational institution responsible for producing and curating knowledge for the public good, pursuing truth and transforming student life, and the neoliberal marketing discourse which portrays the university as a business organization providing a service for international students as customers/consumers. Following a multimodal discourse an…
Discourses, Modes, Media, and Meaning in an Era of Pandemic: A Multimodal Discourse Analysis Approach
Semiotic representations of neoliberal dystopia in Black Mirror
Neoliberalism as phenomenon has been noted for its pervasiveness, persistence and negative impact in society. The uncertainty, pessimism and tension associated with neoliberal societies have found expression in popular culture entertainment, more specifically in dystopic depictions of societies influenced by neoliberal logic. These dystopic presentations offer fantastical depictions as allegories, holding up our current realities for critique. Wh…
Contrasting the Pragmatics of Spanishes
This special issue explores contrastive pragmatics with a focus on Spanish in comparison with other languages and varieties. The collection assembles studies comparing Spanish with Chinese, Greek, English, French, and Italian, as well as investigations of pragmatic variation across different varieties of Spanish. The contributions examine a diverse range of pragmatic phenomena, including humour, impoliteness, aggression, mitigation, requests, com…
Environmental conservation and urban development as competing stories of place and space in Singapore
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 environmental communication. To show how these discourses interact, we use one of the forests identified for development, Dover Forest, as a case study, employing…
Linguistics (18 works) · Sociology (18 works) · Computer Science (15 works) · Political science (12 works) · Semiotics (11 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (9 works) · Politics (9 works) · World Wide Web (9 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (8 works) · Philosophy (8 works)