'Is the Picture Worth a Thousand Words?': The Interpersonal Meanings of a Dialogue in an EFL Textbook
This study was aimed at scrutinising a multimodal text embedded in a dialogue of an EFL textbook. To this end, Systemic Functional Multimodal Discourse Analysis (SF-MDA) focused on interpersonal meanings consulting grammar of visual design and intersemiotic complementarity drawing on systemic functi...
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| description | This study was aimed at scrutinising a multimodal text embedded in a dialogue of an EFL textbook. To this end, Systemic Functional Multimodal Discourse Analysis (SF-MDA) focused on interpersonal meanings consulting grammar of visual design and intersemiotic complementarity drawing on systemic functional linguistics were employed to analyse the artefact, a dialogue within a part named 'communication' taken from an EFL textbook for a primary school level. The findings revealed that declarative clause and modalisation (epistemic modality) of probability was found to be the most common system used in the verbal text. Meanwhile, high modality and validity were found in the visual image indicated by the realisations and representations of detailed abstraction and full-colour saturation. Finally, the study draws a conclusion that there is a cohesive interaction to a certain extent between the verbal text and the visual image represented in the multimodal dialogue. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-21b0a4f0321d497b803daf94b51e79152023-08-23T07:11:48ZengUniversitas Pendidikan MandalikaJournal of Languages and Language Teaching2338-08102621-13782022-04-0110218719810.33394/jollt.v10i2.45103235'Is the Picture Worth a Thousand Words?': The Interpersonal Meanings of a Dialogue in an EFL TextbookAhmad Sugianto0Ilham Agung Prasetyo1Widy Asti2Universitas Pendidikan IndonesiaUniversitas Pendidikan IndonesiaUniversitas Pendidikan IndonesiaThis study was aimed at scrutinising a multimodal text embedded in a dialogue of an EFL textbook. To this end, Systemic Functional Multimodal Discourse Analysis (SF-MDA) focused on interpersonal meanings consulting grammar of visual design and intersemiotic complementarity drawing on systemic functional linguistics were employed to analyse the artefact, a dialogue within a part named 'communication' taken from an EFL textbook for a primary school level. The findings revealed that declarative clause and modalisation (epistemic modality) of probability was found to be the most common system used in the verbal text. Meanwhile, high modality and validity were found in the visual image indicated by the realisations and representations of detailed abstraction and full-colour saturation. Finally, the study draws a conclusion that there is a cohesive interaction to a certain extent between the verbal text and the visual image represented in the multimodal dialogue.https://e-journal.undikma.ac.id/index.php/jollt/article/view/4510dialogueefl textbook evaluationinterpersonal meaningmultimodal analysissystemic functional linguistics |
| spellingShingle | Ahmad Sugianto Ilham Agung Prasetyo Widy Asti 'Is the Picture Worth a Thousand Words?': The Interpersonal Meanings of a Dialogue in an EFL Textbook Journal of Languages and Language Teaching dialogue efl textbook evaluation interpersonal meaning multimodal analysis systemic functional linguistics |
| title | 'Is the Picture Worth a Thousand Words?': The Interpersonal Meanings of a Dialogue in an EFL Textbook |
| title_full | 'Is the Picture Worth a Thousand Words?': The Interpersonal Meanings of a Dialogue in an EFL Textbook |
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| title_short | 'Is the Picture Worth a Thousand Words?': The Interpersonal Meanings of a Dialogue in an EFL Textbook |
| title_sort | is the picture worth a thousand words the interpersonal meanings of a dialogue in an efl textbook |
| topic | dialogue efl textbook evaluation interpersonal meaning multimodal analysis systemic functional linguistics |
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