چکیده:
This content analysis study, employing a multimodal perspective and critical visual analysis, set out to analyze gender representations in Top Notch series, one of the highly used ELT textbooks in Iran. For this purpose, six images were selected from these series and analyzed in terms of ‘representational’, ‘interactive’ and ‘compositional’ modes of meanings. The result indicated that there are no stereotypical predictions of any genders, and that both female and male social actors were represented on an equal footing. The corollary of this critical image analysis was the implications which are of vital importance for material developers as well as those responsible for choosing language teaching in general and ELT materials in particular.
خلاصه ماشینی:
"Thus, the analysis of the intersemiotic relationship between visual and verbal modes in representational terms needs the identification of the represented participants whether animate or inanimate, the processes or the activity described the attributes or the qualities of the participants and, finally, the circumstances in which the action is being developed (Unsworth & Wheeler, 2002).
Interactive Meaning According to Kress and Van Leeuwen (2006), this dimension deals with the (imaginary) relationship between the represented participants and the interactive participants (the image producer and the viewers) and is realized by the gaze, size of the frame, perspective, and horizontal and vertical angle.
In the current study, these resources were selected according to what Kress and Van Leeuwen (2006) have included in their descriptive model of visual social semiotic analysis.
As being alluded to in the previous chapter, although none of the interactive elements showed any kind of direct interactive relationship between the represented and interactive participants, the main purpose of incorporating these images has been complementing written conversation with pictorial representation of the participants with their natural eye contact, social distance, and point of view maintained while they are talking to each other.
The present researchers tried to investigate the existence of a number of dimensions of the Kress and van Leeuwen (2006) framework in the existing images related to conversation models of Top Notch series, and attempted to explore the realization of any ideological orientation in these images based on Goffman' s (1979) theory of gender representation .
2 Abstract This content analysis study, employing a multimodal perspective and critical visual analysis, set out to analyze gender representations in Top Notch series, one of the highly used ELT textbooks in Iran."