This innovative volume highlights the dynamic and groundbreaking contributions of Theo van Leeuwen to the fields of multimodality, social semiotics, and critical discourse analysis, and demonstrates how the key themes in his work have influenced and will continue to shape multimodal research. Beginning with a preface and introduction that detail the foundations of his work through an intellectual biography, the book, featuring fifteen contributions from an international group of leading scholars in the field, builds on this overview of his work to look more closely at the myriad ways in...