Multimodality: A Social Semiotic Approach to Contemporary Communication Gunther Kress
Publisher: Routledge

The social environment of contemporary communication – 3. We further connect these works to ones in 'new media studies' where interface design has Multimodal Discourse: the Modes and Media of Contemporary Communication. Kress' book details the theory of multimodality as it relates to twenty-first century communication. First, we situate research on interface design in relation to a wider notion of communication design informed by social semiotic approaches to mediated communication (Kress & van Leeuwen 2001, Jewitt 2005). Günther Kress: Multimodality; a social semiotic approach to contemporary communication. Visual-verbal communication on online newspaper home pages. Technology, Literacy, Learning: A Multimodal Approach. Kap 4: Kress starter med å forklare sin tilgang til semiotikk, som er sosial semiotikk. SPECIAL ISSUE OF “SOCIAL SEMIOTICS” — Title: Objects and language in trans-contextual communication The study of objects has a long history in modern philosophy, anthropology and in semiotics. Where meaning is the issue – 2. Reading Response to Gunther Kress Multimodality A social semiotic approach to contemporary communication. New Literacy Studies, social semiotics and multimodality, discourse analysis, social geography, linguistic ethnography, communication and cultural studies) that study the role of objects in trans-contextual encounters and their social impact. Visual Communication, 6 (1):19–53. Multimodality: A Social Semiotic Approach to Contemporary Communication. A social-semiotic theory of multimodality – 5. Communication : shaping the domain of meaning – 4. The 21st century is awash with ever more mixed and remixed images, writing, layout, sound, gesture, speech, and 3D objects. A social semiotic approach to contemporary communication. In the first part of the talk I will set out some of the central terms of a social semiotic multimodal theory of communication and representation.