Multimodality

Multimodality by Gunther Kress

The 21st century is awash with ever more mixed and remixed images, writing, layout, sound, gesture, speech, and 3D objects. Multimodality looks beyond language and examines these multiple modes of communication and meaning making. Multimodality: A Social Semiotic Approach to Contemporary Communication represents a long-awaited and much anticipated addition to the study of multimodality from the scholar who pioneered and continues to play a decisive role in shaping the field. Written in an accessible manner and illustrated with a wealth of photos and illustrations to clearly demonstrate the points made, Multimodality: A Social Semiotic Approach to Contemporary Communication deliberately sets out to locate communication in the everyday, covering topics and issues not usually discussed in books of this kind, from traffic signs to mobile phones. In this book, Gunther Kress presents a contemporary, distinctive and widely applicable approach to communication. He provides the framework necessary for understanding the attempt to bring all modes of meaning-making together under one unified theoretical roof. This exploration of an increasingly vital area of language and communication studies will be of interest to advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students in the fields of English language and applied linguistics, media and communication studies and education.

'The theory of social semiotics presented in this book can bring real benefits in understanding apt forms of communication and it opens the route to a clearer view of evaluation in different modes' - Discourse Studies

Institute of Education, University of London, UK

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ISBN 13	9780415320610
ISBN 10	0415320615
Title	Multimodality
Author	Gunther Kress
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Taylor & Francis Ltd
Year published	2009-11-13
Number of pages	236
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