This book is the start of a conversation across Social Semiotics, Translanguaging, Complexity Theory and Sociolinguistics. In its explorations of meaning, multimodality, communication and emerging language practices, the book includes theoretical and empirical chapters that move toward an understanding of communication in its dynamic complexity.

Ari Sherris is Associate Professor of Bilingual Education in the College of Education and Human Performance at Texas A&M University-Kingsville, USA. His research interests include ethnography, complexity theory, critical discourse analysis, multimodality and translanguaging.

Elisabetta Adami is University Academic Fellow in Multimodal Communication at the School of Languages, Cultures and Societies at the University of Leeds, UK. Her research interests include multimodality, social semiotics, meaning, intercultural communication, digital communication, semiotics of space and semiotic/linguistic landscape.