A response to “A theory of educational linguistics”

Kress, Gunther

doi:10.1075/langct.00057.kre

Reply published In: Mapping “Language" in Education: Special issue of the Journal Language, Context and Text 5:2 (2023)
[Language, Context and Text 5:2] 2023
► pp. 403–412

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A response to “A theory of educational linguistics”

Gunther Kress | formerly University of London

Published online: 4 January 2024

https://doi.org/10.1075/langct.00057.kre

Abstract

Kress used the opportunity of responding to Halliday’s paper (see the preceding paper in this issue) to advance ideas which have subsequently been foundational to work in multimodality within the general theoretical of social semiotics.

Keywords: theory of the social, language as a social institution, cultural literacies, language-based theory of learning, broadly conceived notion of semiotics

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References

Halliday, M. A. K. 1978. Language as social semiotic. London: Edward Arnold.

Kress, Gunther & Theo van Leeuwen. 1990. Reading images. Geelong: Deakin University Press.