Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: gunther kress

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  • LEARNING AS SOCIAL PRACTICE
    GUNTHER KRESS
    This book studies learning as a social enterprise, contextually situated, organized and assessed. It gives a broad theoretic grounding for an understanding of learning which goes beyond a common reductionist approach. The book discusses four related approaches to learning which share a social perspective: social semiotics and multimodality; a design-theoretic approach to learni...

    $1,000.00

  • READING IMAGES
    GUNTHER KRESS / THEO VAN LEEUWEN
    This third edition of the landmark textbook Reading Images builds on its reputation as the first systematic and comprehensive account of the grammar of visual design. Drawing on an enormous range of examples from children's drawings to textbook illustrations, photo-journalism to fine art, as well as three-dimensional forms such as sculpture and toys, the authors examine the way...

    $1,160.00

  • LANGUAGE AND CONTROL
    ROGER FOWLER / BOB HODGE / GUNTHER KRESS / TONY TREW
    Originally published in 1979. This book studies language variation as a part of social practice - how language expresses and helps regulate social relationships of all kinds. Different groups, classes, institutions and situations have their special modes of language and these varieties are not just stylistic reflections of social differences; speaking or writing in a certain ma...

    $980.00

  • MULTIMODALITY, LEARNING AND COMMUNICATION
    JEFF BEZEMER / GUNTHER KRESS
    This state-of-the-art account of research and theorizing brings together multimodality, learning and communication through detailed analyses of signmakers and their meaning-making in museums, hospitals, schools and the home environment. By analyzing video recordings, photographs, screenshots and print materials, Jeff Bezemer and Gunther Kress go well beyond the comfortable doma...

    $1,460.00

  • MULTIMODALITY
    GUNTHER KRESS
    The 21st century is awash with ever more mixed and remixed images, writing, layout, sound, gesture, speech, and 3D objects. Multimodality looks beyond language and examines these multiple modes of communication and meaning making. Multimodality: A Social Semiotic Approach to Contemporary Communication represents a long-awaited and much anticipated addition to the study of multi...

    $1,540.00

  • EARLY SPELLING
    GUNTHER KRESS
    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 ...

    $1,420.00

  • BEFORE WRITING
    GUNTHER KRESS
    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 a...

    $1,580.00

  • ENGLISH IN URBAN CLASSROOMS
    JILL BOURNE / ANTON FRANKS / JOHN HARDCASTLE / CAREY JEWITT / KEN JONES / GUNTHER KRESS / EUAN REID
    English in Urban Classrooms is a ground-breaking text that spans a range of issues central to school English today. It extends not only to the spoken and written language of classrooms, but also to other modes of representation and communication that are important in English teaching. This includes image, gesture, gaze, movement and spatial organisation. The team of experienced...

    $1,380.00

  • LEARNING TO WRITE
    GUNTHER KRESS
    First published in 1982, this influential and classic text poses two questions: what is it that a child learns when he or she learns to write? What can we learn about children, society and ourselves, by looking at this process? The book is based on a close analysis of a series of written texts by primary school children and is written for student teachers with little or no know...

    $1,160.00

  • LITERACY IN THE NEW MEDIA AGE
    GUNTHER KRESS
    In this 'new media age' the screen has replaced the book as the dominant medium of communication. This dramatic change has made image, rather than writing, the centre of communication. In this groundbreaking book, Gunther Kress considers the effects of a revolution that has radically altered the relationship between writing and the book. Taking into account social, economic, co...

    $1,160.00

  • LANGUAGE AS IDEOLOGY
    ROBERT HODGE / GUNTHER KRESS
    Critical Linguistics, inaugurated in 1979 with the publication of Language as Ideology, has been widely influential and successful in documenting the connection of linguistic and social practices. Published as a second edition in 1993, the reissue of this classic text still provides a most detailed theoretical account of the operation of power and ideology in all aspects of tex...

    $1,900.00