The Visual and Linguistic Representations of Football Tifos: The Case of Algerian Ultras
| dc.contributor.author | Namane Souha | |
| dc.contributor.author | Moulai Kamar | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-02-04T09:40:05Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-02-04T09:40:05Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2023 | |
| dc.description | 85p. : Ill. en coul. ; 30cm(+CD-Rom) | |
| dc.description.abstract | The present dissertation is intended to investigate the presence of the visual and linguistic representations of the Algerian football tifos displayed in football stadiums by fan groups, or the so-called Ultras. Thirty-five Algerian football tifos were gathered to serve as a corpus. The focus of this study is in the field of Multimodal Social Semiotics; in order to examine the way linguistic and visual means of communication are used as the overall objective, moreover the other focus is to reach four sub – goals: to investigate the different ways tifos are used to convey ideological agendas, as well as to unveil the role that both multimodality and social semiotics play to extract meaning from these football tifos. This study is also carried out to depicts the Algerian youths as a group of intellectuals and not of outcasts Moreover, to add a new study area to EFL works. In order to meet these objectives, a mixed-method that relies on Kress and Van Leeuwen’s (2006) “Reading Images: The Grammar of Visual Design”, Halliday’s Systemic Functional Linguistics (1978) and some conducted interviews, have been used. The findings of the research have revealed that the Algerian football tifos transmit deep meanings and ideologies, mainly anti-modern football, corruption and socio-political concerns, pan Africanism, and team identity and love, through different semiotic resources: colours, fonts, frames…etc., as well as through the use of different types of themes, processes, and moods in the linguistic mode. Additionally, the study highlighted how the two modes of communication, linguistic and visual, are combined to build meaning. | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Language and Communication | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://dspace.ummto.dz/handle/ummto/26319 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | Mouloud Mammeri University | |
| dc.subject | Algerian football tifos | |
| dc.subject | Fan groups | |
| dc.subject | Multimodal Social Semiotics | |
| dc.subject | Meta-functions | |
| dc.subject | Systemic Functional Linguistic | |
| dc.subject | Ultras | |
| dc.subject | Visual and linguistic representations | |
| dc.title | The Visual and Linguistic Representations of Football Tifos: The Case of Algerian Ultras | |
| dc.type | Thesis |