Theo van Leeuwen

Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences Theo Van Leeuwen

Gunther R. Kress

Reading Images provides the first systematic and comprehensive account of the grammar of visual design. By looking at the formal elements and structures of design the authors examine the ways in which images communicate meaning.

The Grammar of Visual Design

Reading Images

Theo Van Leeuwen

"Drawing on a wide range of examples, Kress and Van Leeuwen outline an approach to social discourse in which colour plays a role equal to language, and 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. Above all the authors stress communicative practice and interactivity. Their question throughout is: how do people use communicative modes and media in actual, concrete, interactive instances of communicative practice?" "This book is a text for courses in language, media and communication willing to take on the theoretical challenges posed by multimodality, multimedia and multi-skilling, and it provides inspiring theoretical input for courses in interactive multimedia design."--BOOK JACKET.

The Modes and Media of Contemporary Communication

Multimodal Discourse

Bob Hodge

Robert Ian Vere Hodge

Robert Hodge

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.

Social Semiotics

Kress argues for a radical reappraisal of the phenomenon of literacy and hence for a profound shift in educational practice. He provides fundamental challenges to commonly held assumptions about language and literacy, thought and action.

Rethinking the Paths to Literacy

Before Writing

Carey Jewitt

&ltI>Multimodal Literacy challenges dominant ideas around language, learning, and representation. Using a rich variety of examples, it shows the range of representational and communicational modes involved in learning through image, animated movement, writing, speech, gesture, or gaze. The effect of these modes on learning is explored in different sites including formal learning across the curriculum in primary, secondary, and higher education classrooms, as well as learning in the home. The notion of literacy and learning as a primary linguistic accomplishment is questioned in favor of the multimodal character of learning and literacy. By illustrating how a range of modes contributes to the shaping of knowledge and what it means to be a learner, &ltI>Multimodal Literacy provides a multimodal framework and conceptual tools for a fundamental rethinking of literacy and learning.

Multimodal Literacy

In her historical examination of Australian society, Ann Curthoys considers "Self-government and the persecution of the Aboriginal population".

An Introduction

Communication and Culture

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.

Gunther R. Kress

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