Design elements: - linguistic design metalanguage: focus on representational resources.

This metalanguage: not a category of mechanical skills (grammars for educational use). Nor is the basis for detached critique or reflection. Design notion: productive and innovative potential of language as a meaning-making system. ction! generative description of language as a means of representation. "# orientation to society and te$t: essential requirement of the economies and societies of the present and the future. "# essential: production of particular kinds of democratic and participatory sub%ectivity. &inguistic Design: representational resources available... innovative potential for reshaping these resources in relation to social intentions or aims. 'rammar needs to be seen as a range of choices one makes in designing communication for specific ends! including greater recruitment of nonverbal features. This choices! ho(ever! need to be seen as not %ust a matter of individual style or intention! but as inherently connected to different discourses (ith their (ider interests and relationships of po(er. )ur suggested metalanguage: checklist of features of te$ts! (hich e$perience has sho(n to be particularly (orth attending to. - Designs for Other Modes of Meaning *ee p.+, - -*ome .lements of &inguistic Design/ Delivery: intonation! stress! rhythm! accent! etc. Vocabulary and Metaphor: colocation! le$icali0ation! and (ord meaning Modality: producer1s commitment to the message in a clause Transitivity: process and participants in the 2ocabulary and metaphor! (ord choice! positioning! and meaning. Nominalization of Processes: turning actions! qualities! assesments! or logical connection into nouns or states of being (e.g.! -asses/ becomes -assesment/3 -can/ becomes ability). Information tructures: ho( information is presented in clauses and sentences. !ocal "oherence #elations: cohesion bet(een clauses! and logical relations bet(een clauses (e.g.!

embedding! subordination). $lobal "oherence #elations: The overall organi0ational properties of te$ts (e.g.! genres). - Designs for Other Modes of Meaning 2isual meanings! audio meanings! gestural meanings! spatial meanings! multimodal meanings. 4ultimodal: most significant "# The concept of Design emphasi0es the relationships bet(een received modes of meaning ( vailable Designs)! the transformations of thes modes of meaning in their hybrid and interte$tual use (Designing)! and their subsequent to-be-received status (The 5edesigned). 67ibrida89o:; The -ho(/: *ituated <ractice: =mmersion in e$perience and the utili0ation of available discourses! including those from the students1 life(orlds and simulations of the relationships to be found in (orkplaces and public spaces )vert =nstruction: *ystematic! analytic! and conscious understanding of e$plicit metalanguages! (ich describe and interpret the Design elements of different modes of meaning. >ritical ?raming: =nterpreting the social and cultural conte$t of particular Design of meaning. This involves the students1 standing back from (hat they are studying and vie(ing it critically in relation to its conte$to. Transformed <ractice: Transfer in meaning-making practice! (hich puts the transformed meaning to (ork in other conte$ts or cultural sites.