Multimodality is a sub-field of communication studies which looks beyond language to the multiple modes of communicating or making meaning - from images to sound and music. This book offers a comprehensive theoretical framework for the study of this topic providing sample analyses and suggestions for further reading.

Multimodality is a sub-field of communication studies which looks beyond language to the multiple modes of communicating or making meaning - from images to sound and music. This book offers a comprehensive theoretical framework for the study of this topic providing sample analyses and suggestions for further reading.

This work suggests that communication proceeds by many modes, of which language is one and not necessarily the dominant one. It asks what are the roles of other modes and whether language may be occupying a co-equal or even a minor role in relation to the mode of image, for instance.

A comprehensive account of the grammar of visual design. Draws on examples from children's drawings to textbook illustrations, photo-journalism to fine art, as well as three-dimensional forms such as sculpture to examine how images convey meaning.

Arguing for a reappraisal of the phenomenon of literacy, and hence for a profound shift in educational practice, this volume plays close attention to the plethora of objects which children constantly produce: drawings, cuttings-out, writings and collages.

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.

This book explores all aspects of the materiality of writing in an integrated social semiotic and multimodal framework.

This ground-breaking text spans a range of issues central to school English. It extends not only to the spoken and written language of classrooms, but also to other important modes of representation and communication.

A comprehensive account of the grammar of visual design. Draws on examples from children's drawings to textbook illustrations, photo-journalism to fine art, as well as three-dimensional forms such as sculpture to examine how images convey meaning.

Based on a close analysis of a series of written texts by primary school children, this book poses two questions: what is it that a child learns when he or she learns to write?; and what can we learn about children, society and ourselves, by looking at this process?

Gunther Kress provides fundamental challenges to common assumptions about language and literacy, thought and action. He places these challenges within the context of speculation about the abilities and dispositions essential for children.

This classic text poses two questions: what is it that a child learns when s/he learns to write? What can we learn about children, society and ourselves by looking at this process? This book is based on close analysis of children's writing.

Focuses on mobile learning. This book explores issues around cultural transformation and rationales for the use of mobile technologies in formal education. It examines examples of the use of mobile technologies in school-related learning in relation to the themes of cultural transformation and technological innovation.

In his latest book, Gunther Kress explores how children learn to spell in the context of current concerns about early literacy, examining the effects of technological and cultural changes in society.

Outlines a theory of communication for the age of interactive multimedia and multi-skilling. Drawing on a range of examples, this book presents an approach to the idea of discourse in which colour plays a role equal to language, and shows how two kinds of thought processes interact in the design and production of communicative messages.

This work suggests that communication proceeds by many modes, of which language is one and not necessarily the dominant one. It asks what are the roles of other modes and whether language may be occupying a co-equal or even a minor role in relation to the mode of image, for instance.

This important and influential book considers how the Internet, like the printing press in its time, has changed the politics of communication and explores how the changes will affect the future of literacy.