Starting from the point of view that language is essentially a social phenomenon, this book explores the interconnectedness of linguistic and social matters in a wide vareity of texts ranging from casual conversations to extracts from coursebooks. Kress demonstrates that, rather than being powerless in the face of a monolithic language system, the individual language user is constantly engaged in the processes of linguistic reconstitution and change.

Linguistic Processes in Sociocultural Practice (Language Education)

Literature & Fiction

Kress, Gunther

Christie, Frances

History & Criticism

Oxford University Press

Explaining Science In The Classroom

Is explaining science just an art, or can it be described, taught and learned? That is the question posed by this text. From classroom observations, the authors offer descriptions of how teachers explain science to students, and provide their account with a theoretical basis.

Explaining Science in the Classroom

Martins, Isabel Minhós

McGillicuddy, Kieran

Science & Math

Open Univ Pr

Multimodal Discourse outlines a new theory of communication for the age of interactive multimedia. Kress and Van Leeuwen 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. This book will be a key text in courses of language, media and communication willing to take on the theoretical challenges posed by multimodality, mulitmedia and multi-skilling, and it provides inspiring theoretical input for courses in interactive multimedia design.

Multimodal Discourse (Hodder Arnold Publication)

Politics & Social Sciences

Van Leeuwen, Theo

Social Sciences

Bloomsbury Academic

Multimodal Discourse outlines a new theory of communication for the age of interactive multimedia. Kress and Van Leeuwen 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. This book will be a key text in courses of language, media and communication willing to take on the theoretical challenges posed by multimodality, mulitmedia and multi-skilling, and it provides inspiring theoretical input for courses in interactive multimedia design.

Multimodal Discourse: The Modes and Media of Contemporary Communication

Hodder Education Publishers

Learning to Write

This classic text poses two questions: what is it that a child learns when s/he learns to write? What can we learn about children, society and ourselves by looking at this process? This book is based on close analysis of children's writing.

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Routledge

Reading Images provides the first systematic and comprehensive account of the grammar of visual design. Drawing on an enormous range of examples, Kress and van Leeunwen examine the ways in which images communicate meaning.

Reading Images: The Grammar of Visual Design

Humor & Entertainment

Leeuwen, Theo van

Radio

Gunther Kress argues for a radical reappraisal of the phenomenon of literacy, and hence for a profound shift in educational practice. Through close attention to the variety of objects which children constantly produce (drawings, cuttings-out, 'writings' and collages), Kress suggests a set of principles which reveal the underlying coherence of children's actions; actions which allow us to connect them with attempts to make meaning before they acquire language and writing. This book provides fundamental challenges to commonly held assumptions about both language and literacy, thought and action. It places these challenges within the context of speculation about the abilities and dispositions essential for children as young adults, and calls for the radical decentring of language in educational theory and practice.

Before Writing: Rethinking the Paths to Literacy

Before Writing

Children's Books

Education & Reference

In his latest book, Gunther Kress explores how children learn to spell in the context of current concerns about early literacy. Using numerous examples of children's writing and drawing, Kress looks at children as 'makers of meaning' and explores their earliest ventures into writing. Kress covers problems such as dyslexia within today's educational system. Technological aids on spelling and writing such as spell-checkers and the effects of the increasing visualization of communication (computer, TV, film) are also discussed.

Early Spelling: From Convention to Creativity

Words, Language & Grammar

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