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48
Citations
43756
World Ranking
3021
National Ranking
219

Overview

Theo van Leeuwen is affiliated with the University of Technology Sydney in Australia and has contributed to research primarily in the fields of Arts and Humanities and Social Sciences. Their work spans multiple subfields, including Literature and Literary Theory, Geophysics, Sociology and Political Science, Human-Computer Interaction, and General Health Professions.

Their scholarly output covers a range of topics, such as Discourse Analysis in Language Studies, Digital Games and Media, Geological and Geochemical Analysis, Literacy, Media, and Education, Media, Gender, and Advertising, Digital Communication and Language, and High-pressure Geophysics and Materials.

Recent papers authored by Theo van Leeuwen include:

  • The semiotics of movement and mobility (2021) published in Multimodality & Society
  • Functionalization and informalization in the design of an online fashion shop (2021) published in Discourse & Communication

Frequent co-authors of Theo van Leeuwen are:

  • Staffan Selander
  • Arifudin Idrus
  • Giorgia Aiello
  • Morten Boeriis
  • Julia Rytter Dakwar

Their publications have appeared repeatedly in several venues including Visual Communication, Text and Talk, Multimodality & Society, Discourse & Communication, and Indonesian Journal on Geoscience.

Theo van Leeuwen has also authored book publications with Bloomsbury Publishing plc and the University of Southern Denmark. Titles include Semiotics of Toys and Games (2024) and The semiotics of toys and games: The childhood artefacts that introduce us to the world (2025).

Best Publications

  • Reading Images: The Grammar of Visual Design

    Gunther R. Kress;Theo Van Leeuwen

  • The Handbook of Visual Analysis

    Theo Van Leeuwen;Carey Jewitt

  • Legitimizing Immigration Control: A Discourse-Historical Analysis

    Theo Van Leeuwen;Ruth Wodak

  • Discourse and practice : new tools for critical discourse analysis

    Theo Van Leeuwen

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

    Gunther Kress;Theo Van Leeuwen

  • Legitimation in discourse and communication

    Theo Van Leeuwen

  • Discourse and Practice

    Theo van Leeuwen

  • Introducing Social Semiotics: An Introductory Textbook

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  • Multimodal Discourse: The Modes and Media of Contemporary Communication

    Lester Faigley;Gunther Kress;Theo van Leeuwen

  • The power of semiotic software: a critical multimodal perspective

    Emilia Djonov;Theo van Leeuwen

  • The Visual Dimension in Organizing, Organization, and Organization Research: Core Ideas, Current Developments, and Promising Avenues

    Renate E. Meyer;Markus A. Höllerer;Dennis Jancsary;Theo van Leeuwen

  • The representation of social actors

    Theo van Leeuwen

  • Speech, Music, Sound

    Theo Van Leeuwen

  • Towards a semiotics of typography

    Theo van Leeuwen

  • Representing Social Action

    Theo van Leeuwen

  • Genre and Field in Critical Discourse Analysis: A Synopsis

    Theo van Leeuwen

  • Semiotics and Iconography

    Theo Van Leeuwen

  • What is Authenticity

    Theo Van Leeuwen

  • Global Media Discourse: A Critical Introduction

    David Machin;Theo Van Leeuwen

  • Semiotic technology and practice: a multimodal social semiotic approach to PowerPoint

    Sumin Zhao;Emilia Djonov;Theo van Leeuwen

  • The semiotics of texture: from tactile to visual:

    Emilia Djonov;Theo Van Leeuwen

  • The Language of Colour: An introduction

    Theo Van Leeuwen

Frequent Co-Authors

Eero Vaara
Eero Vaara University of Oxford
Gunther Kress
Gunther Kress University College London
Carey Jewitt
Carey Jewitt University College London
Ruth Wodak
Ruth Wodak Lancaster University
Adam Jaworski
Adam Jaworski University of Hong Kong
Charles Goodwin
Charles Goodwin University of California, Los Angeles
Juliet Richters
Juliet Richters University of New South Wales

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