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 inmultimodality, social semiotics,critical discourse analysis,and multiliteracies has been published in journals such asVisual Communication,Social Semiotics, andText & Talk. Shehas co-edited the volume Critical Multimodal Studies of Popular Discourse(Routledge, 2014, with Zhao). AndersBjrkvall is Professor of Swedish at rebro University, Sweden. His mainresearch interests include multimodality and ethnographies of artefacts andtexts. Recent publications: "Multimodal discourse analysis" inAnalyzingText and Discourse(2017) and "Places and spaces for multimodalwriting in one-to-one computing" inMultimodality 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, Maager and Tnnessen) 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 Bjrkvall 12. Multimodal Recontextualizations of Images in Violent Extremist Discourse Kay L. OHalloran, Sabine Tan, Peter Wignell, and Rebecca Lange 13. Revisiting the family silver: A visual essay on the grammar of visual design Morten Boeriis