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FIGURES

4.1 ‘This is a car’ 43
4.2 No smoking sign 52
4.3 ‘Diary’: a day in the life of a red blood cell 54
4.4 Concept map 1: blood circulation 56
4.5 Concept map 2: blood circulation 56
5.1 Child’s drawing: ‘cookery book’ 61
5.2 The eye: biology in the secondary school 66
5.3 Quadrant of spatial meaning potential in ‘Western’ images 69
5.4 Lugard Road: road sign, Hong Kong 71
5.5 Sign on a walking trail, The Peak, Hong Kong 71
5.6 Distance post: The Peak, Hong Kong 71
5.7 The concept of ‘sentence’: a seventeenth-century religious tract 80
6.1 ‘Annapelle’: a multimodal promotional message 102
7.1 Student drawing of a plant cell 1: ‘like a brick wall’ 108
7.2 Student drawing of a plant cell 2: the lens of the microscope 112

8.1 Writing in the private and the public domain: the notion of the sentence 133
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8.2 Page or screen: Institute of Education website 136
8.3 Multimodal compositions: CD-ROM 138
9.1 ‘Early’ child writing: ‘look, I’ve done it’ 143
9.2 ‘Early’ child writing in an alphabetic writing culture 145
9.3 ‘Early’ child writing in a pictographic writing culture 146
9.4 Drawing and writing: ‘frogs born’ 148
9.5 Horoscope 150
9.6 ‘Our visit to the British Museum’ (with thanks to Eve Bearn) 153
9.7 Page from a science textbook 155
9.8 ‘Early’ child writing: linearity and directionality 158
9.9 New forms of text: video-game magazine 161