Results suggest that the analysis undertaken allows for the description of detailed information about the unfolding narrative, the sequence of events, characters' actions, attributes and emotions, as well as distribution of visual elements, among other features. Subsequently, we analyze these metafunctions (representational, interactive and compositional meanings) in Bárbaro. Initially, based on Halliday and Matthiessen (2004), we present the three metafunctions that are co-present in any text, specifically related to the Grammar of Visual Design (KRESS van LEEUWEN, 2006) and to visual narratives (PAINTER MARTIN UNSWORTH, 2013). In the present study, we provide an analysis of the award-winning Brazilian wordless picture book Bárbaro (MORICONI, 2013) under a social semiotic perspective.
Investigating multimodal meaning-making resources in children's literature may contribute to develop readers' critical interpretative possibilities. Attention is specifically drawn to the relationship between the webpage textuality, intended as site of social interaction, and the environment. Third, the hypertextual composition of the website is examined. Second, attention focuses on the syntagmatic-paradigmatic organization of semiotic material. First, the multimodal and intersemiotic configurations of the website are observed. In order to explore how the eco-communication operates, three lines of investigation are followed. Hence, the discourse of ecology is addressed as a socially regulated meaning-making practice, in its verbal, visual, digital, interactive configuration, as well as in its political, ethical and epistemic implicatures. The institutional digital instance deploys a wide range of semiotic resources with the ultimate aim to ecologically act upon reality, in the belief that language informs and transforms reality (Halliday, 2001: 179). In light of a social-semiotic approach to communication (Kress, 2003, 2010), this paper explores a hypermodal text issued by the municipality of Toronto, in order to actively involve citizens in making ‘the city green’.
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