Multimodality and Social Semiosis

<p>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.</p><p>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.</p>