Social Semiotic Analysis of World Women Leaders’ Representation in Handeling of Covid 19 Crisis: the Guardian and the New York Times
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2020-12
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Mouloud Mammeri University
Abstract
The present study deals with the representation of world women leaders in Western Media, the American and British newspapers: The New York Times and the Guardian. The corpus consists of six news articles along with nine visual images accompanying them. This dissertation analyses articles and images portraying women leaders using the mixed method research, which combines qualitative method and quantitative method. It relies on two analytical frameworks; the first is the multimodal social semiotic theory ‘Visual Grammar’ proposed by Kress and van Leeuwen (1996, 2006) in order to analyse images and the second is van Leeuwen’s framework in Critical Discourse Analysis named ‘the Socio-Semantic Inventory’(1996, 2008) to analyse the articles. The examination of the selected news articles and images has revealed that the Guardian and the New York Times provide a positive depiction of women leaders both visually and linguistically. Thus, the visual and the linguistic modes complement each other semantically in the aforementioned broadsheets. Furthermore, the comparison has shown that the newspapers share some similarities in their visual and linguistic portrayal of women: they both represent women as active participants and as specific identifiable individuals. The newspapers acknowledge the hard work women leaders are putting into to make everyone safe and secure
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57p.: Ill. en coul. ; 30cm(+CD-Rom)
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Critical Discourse Analysis, representation, the Socio-semantic Inventory, Visual Grammar.
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Didactics of Foreign Languages