What is he best known for?
The fields of study he is best known for:
- Linguistics
- Social science
- Epistemology
Gunther Kress focuses on Linguistics, Multimodality, Semiotics, Social semiotics and Ideology.
His study in Linguistics concentrates on Comprehension approach, Natural language, Grammar, Reading and Language study.
His Reading research includes themes of New literacies, Literacy, Semiosis and Social theory.
His Multimodality research is multidisciplinary, relying on both Expression, Multimodal communication, Experiential learning, Content analysis and Representation.
His research integrates issues of Communication styles, Communication, Communication theory and Interactive media in his study of Social semiotics.
His Communication study incorporates themes from Narrative, Composition and Materiality.
His most cited work include:
- Reading Images: The Grammar of Visual Design (4346 citations)
- Literacy in the New Media Age (2383 citations)
- Multimodal Discourse: The Modes and Media of Contemporary Communication (2302 citations)
What are the main themes of his work throughout his whole career to date?
Gunther Kress spends much of his time researching Linguistics, Semiotics, Multimodality, Pedagogy and Epistemology.
In his research, Gunther Kress undertakes multidisciplinary study on Linguistics and Ideology.
His Social semiotics study in the realm of Semiotics connects with subjects such as Ethnography.
His biological study spans a wide range of topics, including Affordance and Meaning.
The concepts of his Multimodality study are interwoven with issues in Identity, Aesthetics and Applied linguistics.
His studies in Pedagogy integrate themes in fields like Mathematics education, Meaning and Representation.
He most often published in these fields:
- Linguistics (35.04%)
- Semiotics (25.55%)
- Multimodality (21.90%)
What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2011-2021)?
- Semiotics (25.55%)
- Multimodality (21.90%)
- Multimedia (10.95%)
In recent papers he was focusing on the following fields of study:
Gunther Kress mostly deals with Semiotics, Multimodality, Multimedia, Social semiotics and Linguistics.
His work carried out in the field of Semiotics brings together such families of science as Perspective, Relation and Communication.
His Multimodality research includes elements of Identity, Aesthetics, Meaning, Social research and Applied linguistics.
Many of his studies on Social semiotics apply to Literacy as well.
As a part of the same scientific family, he mostly works in the field of Linguistics, focusing on Affordance and, on occasion, Conversation.
In his work, Reading is strongly intertwined with Meaning-making, which is a subfield of Epistemology.
Between 2011 and 2021, his most popular works were:
- Multimodal Design, Learning and Cultures of Recognition. (86 citations)
- Multimodality, Learning and Communication: A Social Semiotic Frame (85 citations)
- Semiotic work: Applied Linguistics and a social semiotic account of Multimodality (26 citations)
In his most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:
- Linguistics
- Social science
- Epistemology
Gunther Kress mainly investigates Semiotics, Multimodality, Perspective, Multimedia and Meaning-making.
Multimodality is a subfield of Linguistics that Gunther Kress studies.
Gunther Kress works in the field of Linguistics, focusing on Sign in particular.
Gunther Kress has included themes like Pedagogy, Period, Communication and Visual arts in his Perspective study.
His research investigates the connection with Multimedia and areas like Gesture which intersect with concerns in Social research, Contemporary society, Domain, Mathematics education and Meaning.
His Meaning-making study combines topics in areas such as Epistemology, Social semiotics and Reading.
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