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…
Rhetoric and Multimodality
Even (more so) in pandemic times, there is never enough breathing space to properly contemplate what one has accomplished. Only…
Multimodal Coherence in Comics – ComFor Conference 2021
Thanks to the initiative of my colleagues Markus OPPOLZER and Elisabeth KRIEBER, the annual conference on ‚comics research‘ (run by…
Taste, Scent, Sound – Sensory Language
In various situations of use, language confronts serious expressive limitations and runs up against the ineffable, i.e. experiences that cannot…
Et voilà: A New Book on Multimodality – At Long Last
Edited volumes take particular patience, a high amount of cooperation and across-chapter coherence-generating skills. I found all these gifts in…
From Signing Practice to Semiotic Theory – and Back
The University of Potsdam and its ‚Virtual Centre for Cultural Semiotics‘ will be hosting a truly interesting event from 3…
Is there really such a Thing as Para-interaction? Basel Workshop
Ever since HORTON/WOHL (1956/1986) referred to the kind of virtual interaction between media makers and their anonymous and dispersed target…
Digital Art and Multimodal Argumentation in Ads
Digital image-making (especially visual compositing) has gained much ground in print advertising over the last two decades. Such fast technological…
