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…

An Experiment in Multimodal Writing

Old dogs have a hard time learning new tricks. If they have a motivating master who nudges them on to…

Driving Progress in Applying Multimodality

Refashioning a cancelled symposium panel (Corona’s fault, partly), we – Jana PFLAEGING, Janina WILDFEUER and me – are hosting an…