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

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Last updated: 25 Dec 2024

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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'.

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10.21608/opde.2023.298827

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multimodality, Picture Books, interpersonal metafunction- interactive metafunction- visual grammar, social semiotics, multimodal narratives

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Waleed Faris

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AbdAllah

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Linguistics PhD candidate

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81

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1

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41252

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2023-05-01

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2023-05-13

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2023-05-01

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133

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150

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1110-2721

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2735-3591

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1,140

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CDELT Occasional Papers in the Development of English Education

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https://opde.journals.ekb.eg/

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

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25 Dec 2024