Daniel Lees Fryer

Daniel Lees Fryer is an Associate Professor at the Department of Language, Literature and Culture at Ostfold University College. His research focuses on the intersection of language, culture, and social movements, with a particular emphasis on multimodal communication in environmental and animal-human contexts.

• Applied Linguistics
• English Language
• Multimodality
• Social Semiotics
• Discourse Analysis

Fryer's recent work explores climate change communication in protest settings, kinesemiotics in public demonstrations, and discursive constructions of human-animal exceptionalism in Nordic culture. His studies often employ systemic functional linguistics to analyze multimodal and semiotic strategies in social and environmental contexts.

His research spans topics such as:

• Climate change discourse in rebellious frameworks
• Role of dance in political protests
• Human-animal interactions in Nordic cultural narratives
• Environmental messaging on food packaging