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'''Gunther Rolf Kress''' [[Order of the British Empire|MBE]] ( |
'''Gunther Rolf Kress''' [[Order of the British Empire|MBE]] (26 November 1940 – 20 June 2019) was a British semiotician who was Chair of [[Semiotics]] and Education in the Department of Culture, Communication and Media within the [[Institute of Education]] of [[University College London]], [[University of London]]. |
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Kress was appointed [[Member of the Order of the British Empire]] (MBE) in the 2012 Birthday Honours for services to scholarship.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=60173|supp=y|page=18|date=16 June 2012}}</ref> On 30 January 2015 Kress received an [[Honorary degree|honorary doctorate]] from the Faculty of Educational Sciences at [[Uppsala University]], [[Sweden]].<ref>{{Cite web|title = New honorary doctor at Faculty of Educational Sciences - Uppsala University, Sweden|url = http://www.uu.se/en/research/grants-awards/article/?id=3831&area=2,6,12,16&typ=artikel&lang=en|website = www.uu.se|access-date = 2016-02-02}}</ref> |
Kress was appointed [[Member of the Order of the British Empire]] (MBE) in the 2012 Birthday Honours for services to scholarship.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=60173|supp=y|page=18|date=16 June 2012}}</ref> On 30 January 2015 Kress received an [[Honorary degree|honorary doctorate]] from the Faculty of Educational Sciences at [[Uppsala University]], [[Sweden]].<ref>{{Cite web|title = New honorary doctor at Faculty of Educational Sciences - Uppsala University, Sweden|url = http://www.uu.se/en/research/grants-awards/article/?id=3831&area=2,6,12,16&typ=artikel&lang=en|website = www.uu.se|access-date = 2016-02-02}}</ref> |
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Gunther Rolf Kress MBE (26 November 1940 – 20 June 2019) was a British semiotician who was Chair of Semiotics and Education in the Department of Culture, Communication and Media within the Institute of Education of University College London, University of London.
Kress was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2012 Birthday Honours for services to scholarship.[1] On 30 January 2015 Kress received an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Educational Sciences at Uppsala University, Sweden.[2]
Works
- Kress, Gunther R. (1997). Before Writing: Rethinking the Paths to Literacy. New York: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-13804-3.
- Kress, Gunther R. (2003). Literacy in the New Media Age. New York: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-25356-X.
- Kress, Gunther R.; Van Leeuwen, Theo (2006). Reading Images: The Grammar of Visual Design. New York: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-31915-3.
See also
Footnotes
- ^ "No. 60173". The London Gazette (Supplement). 16 June 2012. p. 18.
- ^ "New honorary doctor at Faculty of Educational Sciences - Uppsala University, Sweden". www.uu.se. Retrieved 2016-02-02.
External links
- Gunther Kress page at the Institute of Education
- Reading Images: Multimodality, Representation and New Media
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