Arguing Tooth and Nail – Workshop Plans

For a while now, I have been entertaining the idea of bringing together like-minded people engaged in the study of…

Far from the Maddening Crowd

I was very lucky to find the peace and quiet away from home and usual work routines which is needed…

West (AUT) to South West (DE)

Unlike the medieval figure in the image (one of the many fascinating details on the great ancient buildings in old-town…

A Pioneer on Frontiers

Nudged by my colleague, John BATEMAN, whose enthusiasm for multimodality has been growing ever bigger lately, I decided to hop…

Take up the Doc Challenge?

My long-time Phd-student and research colleague, Jana PFLAEGING completed her doctorate with an excellent thesis on diachronic multimodal discourse analysis…

Up North – For Multimodal Argumentation (in Advertising)

I am delighted to have been invited as a lecturer on the Örebro Training School ‚Multimodal Rhetoric and Argumentation in…

Tübingen – First Leg

I am happy and grateful to have been appointed Mercator Fellow to the DFG graduate school ‚Ambiguity – Production and…

Instructions in Orchestra Rehearsals – Negotiating the Sound of Music

My esteemed colleague, John BATEMAN, has a habit of distinguishing between simple/basic types of multimodality (e.g., text and image in…

Back to Semiotics – Back to Chemnitz

I had hoped to be able to travel to Chemnitz, where I spent quite a few years of my academic…

A Tribute to Gunther Kress – Sheffield Virtual ESFLC

When Gunther Kress passed away at a conference in Rome in the summer of 2019, the idea was quickly born…