Through theoretical and methodological frameworks, researchers from writing studies, communication disorders, communication studies, applied linguistics, anthropology, and education, argue for a new dialogic approach to multimodality as a question of semiotic practices as well as multimodal artifacts.

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STUART BLYTHE is an Associate Professor, Department of English and Linguistics, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne, USA JEFFREY T. GRABILL is Professor of Rhetoric and Professional Writing and Co-Director of the Writing in Digital Environments (WIDE) Research Center, Michigan State University, USA RICK IEDEMA is Professor of Communication and Director of the Centre for Health Communication, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Technology Sydney, Australia JUDITH T. IRVINE is Edward Sapir Professor of Anthropology, University of Michigan, USA, where she is also chair of the Department of Anthropology. MARY M. JUZWIK is an Assistant Professor of Language and Literacy, Teacher Education Department, Michigan State University, USA KEVIN ROOZEN is an Assistant Professor of English, Auburn University, USA BARRY SAFERSTEIN is a Professor, Communication Department, California State University San Marcos, USA SRIKANT SARANGI is Professor and Director of the Health Communication Research Centre, Cardiff University, UK JODY SHIPKA is an Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA

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Preface Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Exploring Semiotic Remediation; P.A.Prior & J.A.Hengst The 'Poetry Slam', Mathemagicians, and Middle-School Math: Tracing Trajectories of Actors and Artifacts; K.Roozen 'On the many forms it took throughout': Engineering a Multipart, Multiple Site Rhetorical Event ; J.Shipka Negotiating Moral Stance in Classroom Discussion About Literature: Entextualization and Recontextualization Processes in a Narrative Spell; M.M.Juzwik Semiotic Remediation, Conversational Narratives and Aphasia; J.A.Hengst Resemiotization of a Policy Initiative: Promoting Open Disclosure as 'open communication about adverse events'; R.Iedema Mediating Modes of Representation in Understanding Science: The Case of Genetic Inheritance; B.Saferstein & S.Sarangi Citizens Doing Science in Public Spaces: Rhetorical Invention, Semiotic Remediation, and Simple Little Texts; J.T.Grabill & S.Blythe Remaking IO: Semiotic Remediation in the Design Process; P.A.Prior Semiotic Remediation: Afterword; J.Irvine References Author index Subject index