Social semiotics in digital communication investigates how individuals and communities create, share and negotiate meaning through a variety of sign systems—visual, linguistic and multimodal—within ...

If we define semiotics as the discipline that studies social discursivity through the empirical manifestation of discourses in texts, practices, interactions, and other objects of study, then paying ...

Instances of modern humor increasingly exist as multimodal signs, which is most evident in the recent new format of digital memes, image macros, funny videos, and other forms of humor widely ...

Gunther Kress established that speech, visual and writing all play a vital role in communications One of the advantages of doing a doctorate at a good university is that you end up reading major works ...

With Cornell colleague Laura Niemi, a moral psychologist, I organized a panel session at the Linguistic Society of America in Denver in January 2023. The session title was "Organizing and Influencing ...