Multimodality and Social Semiosis: Communication, Meaning-Making, and Learning in the Work of Gunther Kress

Margit Böck (Curatore)

Norbert Pachler (Curatore)

Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2013

Gunther Kress, one of the founders of social semiotics and multimodality, has made lasting contributions to these fields through his work in semiotics and meaning-making; power and identity; agency, design, production; and pedagogy and learning; in varied sites of transformation. This book brings together leading scholars in a variety of disciplines, including social semiotics, pedagogy, linguistics, media and communication studies, new literacy studies, ethnography, academic literacy, literary criticism and, more recently, medical/clinical education, to examine and build upon his work. This disciplinary diversity is evidence of the ways in which Kress' work has influenced and been influenced by a wide range of academic work and intellectual endeavors and how it has been used to lay foundations for theory-building and concept development in a varied yet connected range of areas. The individual contributions to the book pick up the threads of the often collaborative work of the authors with Kress; they show how these approaches were subsequently developed and discuss what future trajectories the authors see for them.

• Curatore: Margit Böck, Norbert Pachler
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Collana: Routledge Studies in Multimodality
• Anno: 2013
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 300 p.
• Dimensioni: 229 x 152 mm
• Peso: 740 gr.
• EAN: 9780415508148

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