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AbdAllah, W. (2023). Multimodal Analysis of Roald Dahl's the 'Enormous Crocodile': A New Approach to Multimodal Narratives. CDELT Occasional Papers in the Development of English Education, 81(1), 133-150. doi: 10.21608/opde.2023.298827
Waleed Faris AbdAllah. "Multimodal Analysis of Roald Dahl's the 'Enormous Crocodile': A New Approach to Multimodal Narratives". CDELT Occasional Papers in the Development of English Education, 81, 1, 2023, 133-150. doi: 10.21608/opde.2023.298827
AbdAllah, W. (2023). 'Multimodal Analysis of Roald Dahl's the 'Enormous Crocodile': A New Approach to Multimodal Narratives', CDELT Occasional Papers in the Development of English Education, 81(1), pp. 133-150. doi: 10.21608/opde.2023.298827
AbdAllah, W. Multimodal Analysis of Roald Dahl's the 'Enormous Crocodile': A New Approach to Multimodal Narratives. CDELT Occasional Papers in the Development of English Education, 2023; 81(1): 133-150. doi: 10.21608/opde.2023.298827

Multimodal Analysis of Roald Dahl's the 'Enormous Crocodile': A New Approach to Multimodal Narratives

Article 6, Volume 81, Issue 1, January 2023, Page 133-150  XML PDF (1.29 MB)
Document Type: Original Article
DOI: 10.21608/opde.2023.298827
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Author
Waleed Faris AbdAllah
Linguistics PhD candidate
Abstract
The current study is an attempt to explore 'multimodality' in Roald Dahl's the 'Enormous Crocodile'. It seeks to investigate to what extent both 'word' and 'image' complement each other in the comprehension of 'children narratives' as multimodal texts. By the application of Halliday and Matthissen's (2004) the interpersonal metafunction and Kress and Van Leeuwen's (2006) the interactive metafunction, findings reveal high frequency in the use of declarative moods in the verbal mode of the selected narrative. This shows that the area of children narratives is 'genre-specific' or 'genre-based'. Furthermore, the analysis of the 'visual mode' shows high presence of 'offer images', 'close-up' shots, 'oblique' angles and 'eye-level' angles in this particular narrative. These findings emphasize that the use of 'images' is 'thematic-specific' or 'thematically-based'. Besides, the findings enhance the notion that the combination of verbal elements and visual components is indispensible in the interpretation of 'children narratives', and prove that a great deal of 'children's comprehension' is 'pictorially-based'.
Keywords
Multimodality; picture books; interpersonal metafunction- interactive metafunction- visual grammar; social semiotics; multimodal narratives
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