Advancing Multimodal and Critical Discourse Studies

Sumin Zhao is a Carlsberg Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Southern Denmark and the book review editor for Discourse and Communication. Her most recent publications apply a social semiotic approach to analyzing selfies and mobile applications. Her edited volume (with Djonov) Critical Multimodal Studies of Popular Discourse is now in paperback. Emilia Djonov is a Lecturer in early childhood at Macquarie University, Australia. Her research in　multimodality, social semiotics,　critical discourse analysis,　and multiliteracies has been published in journals such as　Visual Communication,　Social Semiotics, and　Text & Talk. She　has co-edited the volume Critical Multimodal Studies of Popular Discourse　(Routledge, 2014, with Zhao). Anders　Björkvall is Professor of Swedish at Örebro University, Sweden. His main　research interests include multimodality and ethnographies of artefacts and　texts. Recent publications: "Multimodal discourse analysis" in　Analyzing　Text and Discourse　(2017) and "Places and spaces for multimodal　writing in ’one-to-one’ computing" in　Multimodality in Writing　(2015). Morten Boeriis is an Associate Professor at University of Southern Denmark. His most recent publications are on multimodal visual theory and film analysis. His interview book (co-written with Andersen, Maagerø and Tønnessen) Social Semiotics: Key Figures, New Direction is out on Routledge.

1. Social Semiotics: A theorist and a theory in retrospect and prospect



Emilia Djonov and Sumin Zhao

2. Changing academic common sense: a personal recollection of collaborative work



Gunther Kress

3. "Strangers in Europe": A discourse-historical approach to the legitimation of immigration control 2015/16

Ruth Wodak

4. The limits of Semiotics – epistemology and the concept of ‘race’

Philip Bell

5. Can a sign reveal its meaning? On the question of interpretation and epistemic contexts

Staffan Selander

6. Towards a multimodal social semiotic agenda for touch

Carey Jewitt

7. Reading that which should not be signified: community currency in the UK

Annabelle Mooney

8. A sound semiotic investigation of how subjective experiences are signified in

Ex-Machina (2014)

Gilbert Gabriel

9. Unravelling the Myth of Multiple Endings and the narrative labyrinth in Mr. Nobody (2010)

Chiao-I Tseng

10. New codifications, new practices: the multimodal communication of CrossFit

Per Ledin and David Machin

11. The ‘Semiotics of Value’ in upcycling

Arlene Archer and Anders Björkvall

12. Multimodal Recontextualizations of Images in Violent Extremist Discourse

Kay L. O’Halloran, Sabine Tan, Peter Wignell, and Rebecca Lange

13. Revisiting the family silver: A visual essay on the grammar of visual design

Morten Boeriis