John Bateman
Bremen University
Germany
John Bateman is a Professor of Linguistics in the English and Linguistics Departments of Bremen University. His research interests include functional linguistic approaches to multilingual and multimodal document design, semiotics, theories of discourse, and empirical methods for the analysis of visual communication. He has published widely in all these areas, as well as authoring several introductory and survey articles on multimodality, multimodal linguistic film analysis and automatic natural language generation. Recent books include Multimodal Film Analysis (with K.H. Schmidt, 2012, Routledge) and Text and Image: a critical introduction to the visual/verbal divide (2014, Routledge).