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From telling the world to showing the world 139
Reading as sign-making 142
From telling the world to showing the world 139
Reading as sign-making 142
The world as told: reading as interpretation 149
The world as shown: reading as design 151
Choosing how to read: reading paths 156
Reading as establishing and imposing criteria of relevance 160
Reading paths and access to knowledge 163
Shifts in power: (re)producers of multimodal texts 164
The future of reading in the multimodal landscape of the ‘West’ 166
10 Some items for an agenda of further thinking 168
Requisite theories of meaning 168
Imagination 170
Modes, bodies and dispositions 171
Authorship, authority and knowledge 173
‘Standards’ and their decline 174
Bibliography 177
Index 181
