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53
Citations
76900
World Ranking
2200
National Ranking
391

Overview

Gunther Kress was affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom. Their research contributed primarily to the fields of Arts and Humanities and Psychology, with particular attention to subfields such as Literature and Literary Theory, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, and Philosophy.

The main topics of their work focused on discourse and language studies, including:

  • Discourse Analysis in Language Studies
  • Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
  • Linguistics and Discourse Analysis

Kress published articles exploring these areas, with one recent paper titled A response to "A theory of educational linguistics", published in 2023 in the journal Language Context and Text The Social Semiotics Forum.

Collaboration was also part of their scholarly activity, including work with coauthor Geoff Williams.

Their frequent publication venue was Language Context and Text The Social Semiotics Forum.

Best Publications

  • Reading Images: The Grammar of Visual Design

    Gunther R. Kress;Theo Van Leeuwen

  • Multimodality: A Social Semiotic Approach to Contemporary Communication

    Gunther R. Kress

  • Literacy in the New Media Age

    Gunther R. Kress

  • A pedagogy of Multiliteracies Designing Social Futures

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  • Multimodal Discourse: The Modes and Media of Contemporary Communication

    Gunther Kress;T van Leeuwen

  • Language and control

    Roger Fowler;Bob Hodge;Gunther Kress;Tony Trew

  • Before Writing: Rethinking the Paths to Literacy

    Gunther R. Kress

  • Linguistic Processes in Sociocultural Practice

    Gunther R. Kress

  • Language as Ideology

    Bob Hodge;Gunther R Kress

  • Multimodal Teaching and Learning: The Rhetorics of the Science Classroom

    Carey Jewitt;Gunther Kress;Jon Ogborn;C Tsatsarelis

  • Writing in Multimodal Texts: A Social Semiotic Account of Designs for Learning

    Jeff Bezemer;Gunther Kress

  • Colour as a semiotic mode: notes for a grammar of colour:

    Gunther Kress;Theo Van Leeuwen

  • Learning to Write

    Gunther R. Kress

  • Multimodal Discourse: The Modes and Media of Contemporary Communication

    Lester Faigley;Gunther Kress;Theo van Leeuwen

  • Multimodality, Learning and Communication: A Social Semiotic Frame

    Josephus Johannes Bezemer;Gunther R. Kress

  • Exploring Learning through Visual, Actional and Linguistic Communication: The Multimodal Environment of a Science Classroom.

    Carey Jewitt;Gunther Kress;Jon Ogborn;Charalampos Tsatsarelis

  • Gains and losses: New forms of texts, knowledge, and learning !

    Gunther Kress

  • Multimodality: Challenges to Thinking About Language

    Gunther Kress

  • Language as Ideology

    Paul T. Roberge;Robert Hodge;Gunther Kress

  • Critical Discourse Analysis

    Gunther Kress

  • Reading Images: Multimodality, representation and new media

    Gunther Kress

  • Language and Control

    Beverly S. Hartford;Roger Fowler;Bob Hodge;Gunther Kress

Frequent Co-Authors

Carey Jewitt
Carey Jewitt University College London
Theo van Leeuwen
Theo van Leeuwen University of Technology Sydney
Roger Kneebone
Roger Kneebone Imperial College London
Michael Halliday
Michael Halliday University of Sydney
Brian Street
Brian Street King's College London
Howard Giles
Howard Giles University of California, Santa Barbara
Paul Drew
Paul Drew University of York

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