Gunther Kress
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Gunther Rolf Kress MBE was a linguist and semiotician. He is considered one of the leading theorists in critical discourse analysis, social semiotics and multimodality, particularly in relation to their educational implications. Kress has been described as "one of the leading academics of the early 21st century".
Gunther Kress's Published Works
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Published Works
- Reading Images: The Grammar of Visual Design (1996) (7351)
- A pedagogy of Multiliteracies Designing Social Futures (1996) (5186)
- Literacy in the New Media Age (2003) (2888)
- Multimodal Discourse: The Modes and Media of Contemporary Communication (2002) (2030)
- Multimodality: A Social Semiotic Approach to Contemporary Communication (2009) (1040)
- Before Writing: Rethinking the Paths to Literacy (1997) (1033)
- Language as Ideology (1997) (852)
- Linguistic Processes in Sociocultural Practice (1985) (803)
- Colour as a semiotic mode: notes for a grammar of colour (2002) (565)
- Writing in Multimodal Texts (2008) (513)
- Language and Control (1980) (427)
- Visual and verbal modes of representation in electronically mediated communication: the potentials of new forms of text (1998) (380)
- Reading Images (2020) (321)
- Gains and losses: New forms of texts, knowledge, and learning ! (2005) (306)
- Multimodality: Challenges to Thinking About Language (2000) (276)
- Learning to Write (1982) (252)
- Against Arbitrariness: The Social Production of the Sign as a Foundational Issue in Critical Discourse Analysis (1993) (231)
- Exploring Learning Through Visual, Actional and Linguistic Communication: The multimodal environment of a science classroom (2001) (230)
- English in Urban Classrooms: A Multimodal Perspective on Teaching and Learning (2004) (225)
- System and Function in Language (1978) (223)
- Multimodality, Learning and Communication: A Social Semiotic Frame (2015) (214)
- Critical Discourse Analysis (1990) (165)
- Multimodal design, learning and cultures of recognition (2012) (153)
- Reading Images: Multimodality, representation and new media (2004) (151)
- Communication and Culture (1998) (138)
- ‘Partnerships in research’: multimodality and ethnography (2011) (119)
- Globalisation, Literacy and Society: Redesigning pedagogy and assessment (2003) (90)
- Writing the future : English and the making of a culture of innovation (1995) (89)
- A Curriculum for the Future (2000) (89)
- What is Mode (2009) (80)
- Genre in a social theory of language (1992) (80)
- Early spelling : between convention and creativity (2000) (74)
- Finding the Keys to Biliteracy: How Young Children Interpret Different Writing Systems (2004) (74)
- The Multisemiotic Resources of Biliterate Children (2003) (68)
- Changing Text: A Social Semiotic Analysis of Textbooks (2010) (67)
- History and language: Towards a social account of linguistic change (1989) (63)
- Genre and the Changing Contexts for English Language Arts. (1999) (59)
- Applied Linguistics and a social semiotic account of Multimodality (2015) (59)
- Representational resources and the production of subjectivity: Questions for the theoretical development of Critical Discourse Analysis in a multicultural society: Gunther Kre (2013) (57)
- A Satellite View of Language: Some Lessons from Science Classrooms. (1998) (56)
- "Scissors, Please": The Practical Accomplishment of Surgical Work in the Operating Theater (2011) (56)
- Assessment in the Perspective of a Social Semiotic Theory of Multimodal Teaching and Learning (2009) (54)
- Visualizing English: a social semiotic history of a school subject (2009) (53)
- “You've Just Got to Learn How to See”: Curriculum Subjects, Young People and Schooled Engagement with the World (2000) (52)
- A multimodal approach to research in education (2003) (51)
- Thinking about the 'm' in mobile learning (2007) (48)
- Language in the Media: The Construction of the Domains of Public and Private (1986) (47)
- Internationalisation and Globalisation: Rethinking a curriculum of communication (1996) (46)
- Meaning and Learning in a World of Instability and Multiplicity (2008) (46)
- Touch: A resource for making meaning (2014) (45)
- Multimodal social semiotics: Writing in online contexts (2014) (45)
- Perspectives on Making Meaning: The Differential Principles and Means of Adults and Children (2003) (45)
- Using a social semiotic approach to multimodality : researching learning in schools, museums and hospitals (2012) (44)
- Social Semiotics, Style and Ideology (1997) (43)
- Halliday: System and Function in Language : Selected Papers (1976) (42)
- Microanalysis of video from the operating room: an underused approach to patient safety research (2016) (39)
- Communication and culture : an introduction (1988) (36)
- Linguistic processes and the mediation of ‘reality’: the politics of newspaper language (1983) (36)
- English for an Era of Instability: Aesthetics. ethics, creativity and 'design' (2002) (34)
- Changing English? : the impact of technology and policy on a school subject in the 21st century (2009) (33)
- Recognizing learning : a perspective from a social semiotic theory of multimodality (2013) (31)
- Thinking About Meaning and Learning in a World of Instability and Multiplicity (2007) (31)
- Multimodal discourse analysis (2011) (30)
- Multimodality, literacy and school English (2010) (30)
- Sociolinguistics and Social Semiotics (2005) (30)
- Young people, facebook, and pedagogy: Recognizing contemporary forms of multimodal text making (2017) (29)
- “Do you have another Johan?” Negotiating meaning in the operating theatre (2011) (29)
- Writing in a Multimodal World of Representation (2009) (28)
- Urban Classrooms, Subject English: Multimodal Perspectives on Teaching and Learning (2005) (27)
- Unsettled teamwork: communication and learning in the operating theatres of an urban hospital. (2016) (25)
- for Learning Writing in Multimodal Texts : A Social Semiotic Account of Designs (2008) (25)
- STRUCTURES OF VISUAL REPRESENTATION (1992) (25)
- The Social Practice of Multimodal Reading: A New Literacy Studies–Multimodal Perspective on Reading (2013) (25)
- Teaching and Learning: Beyond language (2000) (25)
- Knowledge, Identity, Pedagogy: Pedagogic Discourse and the Representational Environments of Education in Late Modernity (2000) (24)
- “Literacy” In a Multimodal Environment of Communication (2007) (24)
- Introduction: multimodality, meaning making, and the issue of “text” (2014) (24)
- [Isotopic methods]. (1985) (23)
- Social Semiotics and Multimodal Texts (2005) (23)
- Holding the Scalpel (2014) (20)
- Thinking about the notion of ‘cross-cultural’ from a social semiotic perspective (2012) (18)
- The national literacy strategy:a debate (1999) (18)
- Ideological Transformation of Discourse; or How the Sunday Times Got its Message across (1978) (18)
- Learning and Environments of Learning in Conditions of Provisionality (2010) (17)
- Learning, a semiotic view in the context of digital technologies (2004) (16)
- Reading and writing with images: a review of four texts. Reading Images: The Grammar of Visual Design (2001) (16)
- Visual optics: interpreting body art, three ways (2013) (16)
- Design: the rhetorical work of shaping the semiotic world (2014) (15)
- Learning in the operating theatre : a social semiotic perspective (2012) (15)
- The social semiotics of convergent mobile devices: new forms of composition and the transformation of habitus (2009) (13)
- Bibliographical Essay: Developing the Theory and Practice of Genre-based Literacy (2011) (13)
- PARTICIPATION AND DIFFERENCE: The Role of Language in Producing a Culture of Innovation (1992) (13)
- Documenting and transferring meaning in the multimodal world: reconsidering “transcription” (2017) (12)
- A Social Semiotic Multimodal Approach to Learning (2015) (11)
- Comments on Cope and Kalantzis (2009) (11)
- ‘Screen’: metaphors of display, partition, concealment and defence (2006) (11)
- Literature, Language and Society in England, 1580-1680 (1983) (10)
- Development of methodologies for researching online: the case of food blogs (2014) (9)
- The Multimodal Landscape of Communication (2017) (9)
- The ideology of middle management (2018) (8)
- Media Analysis and the Study of Discourse (1983) (8)
- A social semiotic multimodal approach to human communication: implications for speech, writing and applied linguistics. (2010) (8)
- Socio-Linguistic Development and the Mature Language User: Different Voices for Different Occasions (2004) (7)
- Early Spelling: From Convention to Creativity (1999) (7)
- Knowledge, creativity and communication in education: multimodal design (2009) (7)
- Sociolinguistics and social emotions (2001) (7)
- Commentary: Media discourse-extensions, mixes, and hybrids: Some comments on pressing issues (2004) (6)
- TRANSFORMATIONS, MODELS, AND PROCESSES: TOWARDS A MORE USABLE LINGUISTICS (1974) (6)
- 21. The Textbook in a Changing Multimodal Landscape (2016) (6)
- Designing Meaning Social Semiotic Multimodality Seen in Relation to Ethnographic Research (2015) (6)
- Semiotic work in the science classroom (2020) (6)
- Transformations and Discourse: A Study in Conceptual Change (1978) (6)
- Materiality as an aspect in learning (2000) (5)
- Reading, learning, and ‘texts’ in their interaction with the digital media (2014) (5)
- YOU MADE IT LIKE A CROCODILE (2003) (5)
- The Social Practice of Multimodal Reading (2018) (5)
- A social-semiotic theory of multimodality (2009) (4)
- The semiotic landscape (2020) (4)
- Rhetorical construction of cells in science and in a science classroom (2000) (4)
- Pedagogy as design: a social semiotic approach to learning as communication (2019) (4)
- Narrative representations (2020) (4)
- Multimodality, Style, and the Aesthetic : The Case of the Digital Werewolf (2018) (4)
- Introduction : The grammar of visual design (2020) (3)
- A social semiotic perspective on learning (2021) (3)
- “How many lap choles have you done?” A linguistic-ethnographic take on counting surgical experience. (2011) (3)
- 2. Communicating Beyond Diversity: A Bricolage of Ideas (2018) (3)
- Interview—M A K Halliday May 1986 (1992) (3)
- Directions in Sociolinguistics (1981) (3)
- Learning as sign making: materiality as an aspect of learning in the science classroom (2000) (3)
- Introduction to the special issue on museum identities, exhibition designs and visitors’ meaning-making (2014) (3)
- Researching in Conditions of Provisionality: Reflecting on the PhD in the Digital and Multimodal Era (2012) (3)
- Continuity and change: semiotic relations across multimodal texts in surgical education (2017) (3)
- A social semiotic analysis of mobile devices: Interrelations of technology and social habitus (2010) (3)
- Interview with M.A.K. Halliday May 1986: Part two (1992) (2)
- The English classroom as a multimodal sign (2004) (2)
- Video analysis of bodily conduct in teamwork within the operating theatre (2012) (2)
- The meaning of composition (2020) (2)
- Literacy as a Social Practice (2018) (2)
- Meaning as work: Individuals, society and the production of representational resources (1998) (2)
- Moving beyond a critical paradigm: on the requirements of a social theory of language (1995) (2)
- Making meaning in an exhibition : design, agency and (re-)design (2012) (2)
- English for an era of instability (2011) (2)
- Annotation in School English: A Social Semiotic Historical Account (2011) (2)
- Rules and regulations (2018) (1)
- SOME THOUGHTS ON ETHNOGRAPHIC FIELDWORK AND PHOTOGRAPHY (2011) (1)
- Communication: shaping the domain of meaning (2009) (1)
- Digital Research Methods: A Multimodal Approach (2016) (1)
- An English Curriculum for the Future 1 (1994) (1)
- Contemporary Landscapes of Visual and Digital Communication: The Interplay of Social, Semiotic, and Technological Change (2020) (1)
- Classifications at work: the case of middle management (1981) (1)
- Meaning as resource: ‘naming’ in a multimodal social-semiotic theory (2009) (1)
- Literacy or Literacies: Thoughts for an Agenda for the Day after Tomorrow. (1996) (1)
- Reading as semiosis: interpreting the world and ordering the world (2003) (1)
- Happy Auguries of the Decline of an Emergent Speciality@@@Order in Court: The Organization of Verbal Interaction in Judicial Settings.@@@Language and Control.@@@On Cliches: The Supersedure of Meaning by Function in Modernity. (1981) (1)
- Surgical Education: Perspectives on Learning, Teaching and Research (2011) (1)
- The Textbook in a Changing Multimodal Landscape (2016) (1)
- Key Concepts in Multimodality: Berit Hendriksen in conversation with Gunther Kress (2012) (1)
- Language as Ideology@@@The Material Word: Some Theories of Language and Its Limitations (1981) (1)
- Learning as Social Practice (2021) (1)
- More than words: the construction of scientific entities through image, gesture and movement in the science classroom (2002) (1)
- Multimodal Social Semiotics (2015) (1)
- Editorial (2006) (1)
- The textual cycle of the English classroom (2005) (1)
- Modes of representation and the goals of education: rethinking the place of language in education in pluri-cultural societies (1998) (1)
- The social values of speech and writing (2018) (1)
- Writing and Learning to Write (2018) (1)
- Review of Literacy in the New Media Age (2006) (1)
- A new approach to understanding school English: Multimodal semiotics (2005) (0)
- Screens and the Social Landscape: Digital Design, Representation, Communication and Interaction (2021) (0)
- Critical Assumptions@@@Language as Ideology (1981) (0)
- The social environment of contemporary communication (2009) (0)
- Language as Ideology.@@@Language and Control. (1982) (0)
- Learning in the multimodal environment of the classroom (2001) (0)
- Media, Culture and Social Worlds (2002) (0)
- Orchestrating a debate (2004) (0)
- The Literacy of Minority Children in Bulgaria (1994) (0)
- The third dimension (2020) (0)
- FREE DOWNLOAD Targeted Early Spelling : From Convention to Creativity (2019) (0)
- Transposing meaning (2019) (0)
- Colour as a semiotic mode: the quest for a grammar of meaning (2002) (0)
- The organization of time in the English classroom : A brief history of (school) time (2004) (0)
- Modality and validity (2020) (0)
- Video guide: Multimodal/ethnographic analysis of digital and online environments (2013) (0)
- A Framework for thinking about the issues (2005) (0)
- A social and political framework for thinking about English (2005) (0)
- The social production of character as an entity of school English (2005) (0)
- Multimodality: Reframing Communication, Learning, and Identity (2015) (0)
- MODES AS TECHNOLOGIES OF TRANSCRIPTION: SOME COMMENTS ON CONTEMPORARY FORMS OF COMPOSITION (2009) (0)
- Proposing a Practical Media Taxonomy for Complex Media Production (2019) (0)
- The pedagogic construction of ‘ability’ in school English (2004) (0)
- Register (text variety) (2001) (0)
- A social theory of text: genre (2003) (0)
- Roger Fowler (2000) (0)
- 6th International Conference on Multimodality - Conference guide with abstracts (2012) (0)
- Challenges, trends and directions in multimodal work (2012) (0)
- Design and arrangements: making meaning material (2009) (0)
- Social Semiotics (2019) (0)
- Comparison Study on Using Language; Critical Discourse Perspective on the Direct Government Cash Assistance During Pandemic Covid-19 on the News of Harianhaluan.com and Padangkita.com (2020) (0)
- The organization of time in the English classroom (2005) (0)
- Changing Academic Common Sense (2017) (0)
- Meaning and frames: punctuations of semiosis (2003) (0)
- Designing Meaning (2015) (0)
- Multimodal orchestrations and ensembles of meaning (2009) (0)
- Semiotic work in the science classroom (2019) (0)
- Only write down what you need to know: Annotation for what? (2005) (0)
- Multimodalities, multilingualism and the recontextualization of knowledge for academic purposes (2008) (0)
- Meaning as work (1998) (0)
- Globalisation : rethinking a curriculum of communication (2010) (0)
- And so to some final comments (2005) (0)
- Children’s Media Culture, and the end of Schooling? (1999) (0)
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