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Average rating: 3.78 · 74 ratings · 7 reviews · 19 distinct works
Literacy in the New Media Age
3.73 of 5 stars 3.73 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2003 — 2 editions
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Multimodality: A Social Sem...
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Reading Images: The Grammar...
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Multimodal Discourse
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Before Writing: Rethinking ...
4.67 of 5 stars 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1996 — 2 editions
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Writing The Future: English...
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Learning to Write
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Early Spelling: From Conven...
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Language as Ideology
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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: A Social Semiotic Approach to Contemporary Communication

“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: A Social Semiotic Approach to Contemporary Communication



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