We often hear that society is becoming more visual, that we are becoming dominated by 'the
image'. It is certainly true that technology has made it much easier for us to produce and …

This third edition of the landmark textbook Reading Images builds on its reputation as the
first systematic and comprehensive account of the grammar of visual design. Drawing on an …

Teaching and learning involve more than just language. The teachers' use of gestures, the
classroom spaces they occupy and the movements they make, as well as the tools they use …

This volume brings together two hitherto disparate domains of scholarly inquiry: organization
and management studies on the one hand, and the study of visual and multimodal …

The ubiquitous software PowerPoint has significant influence on evaluations of professional
and academic success, and has attracted considerable attention from both social …

Søren Vigild Poulsen a, Gunhild Kvåle b and Theo van Leeuwen c aDepartment of
Language and Communication, University of Southern Denmark, Slagelse, Denmark; …

Whether L2ers know this constraint was used to examine whether UG operates in SLA (see
Belikova and White (2009) for a recent overview). The logic behind it is as follows: Some …

This study proposes a multimodal discourse analysis for investigating semiotic resources
and intersemiotic cohesion in student presentations online. Data come from seminars in …

MAK Halliday's work has been hugely influential in linguistics and beyond since the 1960s.
This is a collection of interviews with key figures in the generation of social semioticians who …

This introductory chapter sets the media-historical and theoretical scene for the exploration
of the shifts toward image-centricity in contemporary multimodal practices posited in the …