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Gunther Kress

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Gunther Kress



Average rating: 3.83 · 560 ratings · 56 reviews · 40 distinct worksSimilar authors
Reading Images: The Grammar...

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3.78 avg rating — 214 ratings — published 1996 — 12 editions
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Multimodality

3.83 avg rating — 87 ratings — published 2009 — 14 editions
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Literacy in the New Media Age

3.58 avg rating — 65 ratings — published 2003 — 13 editions
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Multimodal Discourse (Hodde...

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4.02 avg rating — 54 ratings — published 2001 — 4 editions
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Before Writing

4.25 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1996 — 11 editions
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Language as Ideology

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3.64 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1979 — 4 editions
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Learning to Write

4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1982 — 10 editions
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Early Spelling

4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1998 — 10 editions
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Multimodal Teaching and Lea...

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Linguistic Processes in Soc...

3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1989 — 2 editions
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“Shifting the frame only slightly, the choice of a theory from among the range of always ideologically founded theories is itself necessarily ideologically motivated. Positioning is unavoidable; positioning is the result of choice from among a range of possibilities; that choice is socially meaningful - it is ideological.”
Gunther Kress, Multimodality

“The (nation) state's concern had been the development of citizens - social subjects whose identity was shaped by the goals of the state - and the preparation of a labour force serving the needs of a national economy and administration. That state was interested in cohesion, integration and homogeneity - however imperfectly realized. The globally framed interests of current versions of the market are neither about citizenship - shared social values, aspirations, dispositions - nor about the preparation of a labour force.....”
Gunther Kress, Multimodality

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