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“It can cry, it can speak, it can pee”: Modality values and playing affordances in contemporary baby dolls’ discourse

open access: yesIlha do Desterro, 2018
Baby dolls have been in the toy market for more than a hundred years, since French firm Jumeau entered the toy industry in the 19th century and started producing ‘bébés’, considered the greatest phenomena of the toy market (FLEMING, 1996).
Danielle Almeida
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The ideational hegemonic gendered transactional ideology across ‘Long day’s journey into night’: a socio-semiotic analysis

open access: yesInsights into Language, Culture and Communication
This study addresses the triangulation of language, power, and gender since it aims at examining the ideational function of language realized through the interpersonal profile.
Sara Samir El Daly
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An analysis of stylistic similarities and differences between Tārīkh-i Bayhaqi and Tārīkh-i Jahāngushāy-i Juwaynī using Halliday's experiential metafunction [PDF]

open access: yesزبان پژوهی
IntroductionIn order to grasp this study’s main concern, we should note that Abū’l-Fazl Bayhaqi’s Tārīkh-i Bayhaqi and Atâ-Malek Juwaynī’s Tārīkh-i Jahāngushā share striking similarities yet also differ noticeably.
Navid Eshaghian, batul vaez
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NAMAARI POWER IN RAYA AND THE LAST DRAGON MOVIE: MULTIMODAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS

open access: yesLanguage Literacy: Journal of Linguistics, Literature, and Language Teaching
Raya and the Last Dragon is a popular animated film from Walt Disney Animation Studios, featuring an antagonist named Namaari. This study aims to examine the interactive meaning of a particular scene and determine the representation of power by Namaari ...
Atmi Maharani Purwanto   +1 more
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Defusing Controversial Topics: Visual Semiotics in an Atlantic Canadian Textbook

open access: yesDiscourse and Writing/Rédactologie, 2002
Drawing upon Gunther Kress' and Theo van Leeuwen's work on the meta functional grammar of visual design, this paper studies how visual se-lections in an Atlantic Canadian social studies textbook deflect attention from the political, particularly in ...
Tracy Whalen
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The Philippine Online News Headlines on COVID-19 Pandemic: An Interpersonal Metafunction Analysis

open access: yesJET (Journal of English Teaching), 2020
This paper carries on a tentative interpersonal metafunctional analysis of the interpersonal metafunction online news headlines about COVID-19 pandemic. The analysis involved the differences in the mood type distribution, polarity, modality and other lexical characteristics.
openaire   +1 more source

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