Author: Gunther Kress
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: design, visual, grammar, images, reading
Number of Pages: 291
Published: 2006-05-12
List price: $41.95
ISBN-10: 0415319153
ISBN-13: 9780415319157

This second edition of the landmark book Reading Images builds on its reputation as the first systematic and comprehensive account of the grammar of visual design. Drawing on an enormous range of examples from children’s drawings to textbook illustrations, photo-journalism to fine art, as well as three-dimensional forms such as sculpture and toys, the authors examine the ways in which images communicate meaning. Features of this fully updated second edition include: new material on moving images and on color, a discussion of how images and their uses have changed through time, websites a

Authors:Robert Hodge, Gunther Kress,
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Keywords: semiotics, social
Number of Pages: 285
Published: 1988-12
List price: $23.95
ISBN-10: 0801495156
ISBN-13: 9780801495151

"Social Semiotics" is a textbook in communication and cultural studies. It offers a comprehensive approach to the study of the ways in which meaning is constituted in social life. Hodge and Kress begin from the assumption that signs and messages - the subject matter of semiotics - must always be situated within the context of social relations and processes. They then show what is involved in analyzing different kinds of messages, from literary texts, TV programmes and billboards to social interactions in the family and the school. While presenting an assessment of different perspectives, Hodge

Authors:Gunther Kress, Theo van Leeuwen,
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
Keywords: discourse, multimodal
Number of Pages: 152
Published: 2001-06-29
List price: $43.95
ISBN-10: 0340608773
ISBN-13: 9780340608777

Multimodal Discourse outlines a new theory of communication for the age of interactive multimedia. Kress and Van Leeuwen show how two kinds of thought processes interact in the design and production of communicative messages: "design thinking" and "production thinking," the kind of thinking which occurs in direct interaction with the materials and media used. This book will be a key text in courses of language, media and communication willing to take on the theoretical challenges posed by multimodality, mulitmedia and multi-skilling, and it provides inspiring theoretical input for courses in i

Authors:Gunther Kress, Robert Hodge,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: language, politics, ideology
Number of Pages: 230
Published: 1993-04-19
List price: $26.99
ISBN-10: 0415070015
ISBN-13: 9780415070010

Critical linguistics, inaugurated in 1979 with the publication of "Language as Ideology", has been widely influential and successful in documenting the detail of the connection of linguistic and social practices. Even now "Language as Ideology" provides the most detailed theoretical account of the operation of power and ideology in all aspects of text. This new edition presents, in a major new chapter, the advances made in the field of critical language study; and it gives an account of the authors’ current position through a detailed analysis and theoretical discussion of a related set

Authors:Gunther Kress, Theo van Leeuwen,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: design, visual, grammar, images, reading
Number of Pages: 312
Published: 2006-05-12
List price: $160.00
ISBN-10: 0415319145
ISBN-13: 9780415319140

This second edition of the landmark textbook Reading Images builds on its reputation as the first systematic and comprehensive account of the grammar of visual design. Drawing on an enormous range of examples from children’s drawings to textbook illustrations, photo-journalism to fine art, as well as three-dimensional forms such as sculpture and toys, the authors examine the ways in which images communicate meaning.Features of this fully updated second edition include: new material on moving images and on colour a discussion of how images and their uses have changed through time web

Authors:Gunther Kress, Theo van Leeuwen,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: design, visual, grammar, images, reading
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 1996-05-01
List price: $44.95
ISBN-10: 0415106001
ISBN-13: 9780415106009

Reading Images provides the first systematic and comprehensive account of the grammar of visual design. Drawing on an enormous range of examples, Kress and van Leeunwen examine the ways in which images communicate meaning.

Authors:Gunther Kress, Carey Jewitt, Jon Ogborn,
Publisher: Continuum
Keywords: applied, linguistics, advances, learning, teaching, multimodal
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2001-04-15
List price: $110.00
ISBN-10: 0826448593
ISBN-13: 9780826448590

’Multimodal Teaching and Learning: The Rhetorics of the Science Classroom achieves the rare goal of explicating multimodality as both theory and practice. This is an importantly concrete analysis, derived from extended, careful, and interdisciplinary observation, which challenges our thinking about how meaning and knowledge are shaped by our modes of communication. The book appeals to a wide range of scholars and practitioners far beyond the science classroom.’ Professor Ron Scollon, Department of Linguistics, Georgetown University. This book takes a radically different look at com