Visual Representation of Ebossé’s Death News Event in Le Buteur, El Watan and Algerian Press Service: a Social Semiotic Analysis
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2015-09-20
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Mouloud Mammeri University of Tizi-Ouzou
Abstract
Our Research Study is concerned with the comparison between two locale and independent
printed newspapers Le Buteur and El Watan with Algerian Press Service which is a Public
News Agency and electronic one. The aim of the study is to sort out the differences in their
representation of Ebossé’s Death news event visually from a Social Semiotic perspective and
mainly the reasons behind those differences. The study analyzed four Photojournalism in
relation to their Headlines and subheads in the three selected News Media. The Research
method used is Qualitative in order to go in depth in the analysis with the Approach’s
principles of Grammar of Visual Design (Kress and Van Leeuwen, 1996; 2006). The Findings
and Discussion of the Findings showed that Le Buteur and EL Watan are more similar
compared to the APS representation either visually or verbally (headlines). The differences
concern all the principles under which we analyzed our data such as: the Image Size and
Placements, Salience and Image Act. The results revealed that they are different due to the
medium of news transmission (printed press vs. web page. Also because of the different
communicative purpose they wanted to communicate. Finally, the three news media targeted
different audiences. Le Buteur and El Watan are written in French (language), and their
communicative purpose is to question Ebossé’s death, while APS which is online and targeted
a larger audience, because it has several versions: Tamazight, Arabic, French, English and
even Tifinagh. It also had another communicative purpose which was to inform but mainly
since it is a News Agency its role was to serve the need of international press.
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60p.:ill;30cm.(+cd)
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Social Semiotics and Applied Linguistics