Essays about: "visual grammar."

Showing result 6 - 10 of 14 essays containing the words visual grammar..

  1. 6. A multimodal critical discourse analysis of Swedish teaching materials for English

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för kultur, språk och medier (KSM)

    Author : Kate Varga; Ronja Cato; [2021]
    Keywords : Arts; CDA; English language teaching; ELT; ELT textbooks; ethnicity; gender; MCDA; multimodal; representation; social semiotics; visual grammar.;

    Abstract : Education in the Swedish school system should aim to assist pupils in the development of fundamental values. This study investigates to what extent different groups of people are represented within two textbooks for English language teaching (ELT), produced in Sweden and commonly used in Swedish schools and how these representations correlate with the values indicated in the curriculum. READ MORE

  3. 7. VIDEOS OF WORSHIP. A multimodal critical discourse analysis of Xi Jinping’s ideology and its recontextualisation in propagandistic music videos

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Author : Karl Stäringe; [2020-04-03]
    Keywords : SIK; kinesiska; cult of personality; Xi Jinping; visual grammar; recontextualisation; multimodal critical discourse studies;

    Abstract : År 2012 och 2013 tog Xi Jinping över ledarrollerna för Kinas Kommunistparti, den Centrala Militärkommissionen och Folkrepubliken Kina. Detta maktskifte påbörjade en centralisering av den makt som sedan Deng Xiaopings tid hade delats av det översta ledarskiktet. READ MORE

  4. 8. The invocation of X

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/HDK - Högskolan för design och konsthantverk

    Author : Klara Bothén; [2019-07-15]
    Keywords : Textil; Formgivning; Steneby;

    Abstract : “The Invocation of X” takes its beginning in a narrative about domestic textile handicrafts in a historical perspective. This is in turn connected to other stories: handicrafts as a political strategy, secret societies, and the shared matrix of textile and digital structures. READ MORE

  5. 9. “All Can Achieve Beauty” : A Diachronic Multimodal Text Analysis of Skin Care Advertisements 1920-2013

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Author : Linn Wibom; [2019]
    Keywords : Multimodality; systemic functional linguistics; visual grammar; advertisements; beauty; skin care.;

    Abstract : Advertisements are multimodal texts created to get attention from potential customers in order to sell products. Previous research has shown how advertisements’ visual and verbal features make up ideological codes that are used to affect readers. READ MORE

  6. 10. Neither Here Nor There, But Altogether Elsewhere : A Brief Study of Distance

    University essay from Konstfack/Grafisk design & illustration

    Author : Jonathan Chang; [2019]
    Keywords : distance; elsewhere; with; for; listening; brokenness; wake; wake up!; language; visual linguistics; visual grammar; making sense; active disposition; noise; framed encounters; here; there; poetry; partial attempts; information; companion readers; openness; emptiness; subaltern; unsettled; knowing; medium thinking; partial attempts; dialogue; reorientation; seeing; being;

    Abstract : Knowing is often framed by language; this moving arrangement of parts helps us make sense of our surround, rendering possible ways of relating, acting, and responding. Situated yet unsettled, the play of language enables us to mediate distances, to make sense of our frames while seeking other ways of being with and for. READ MORE