Abstract
<p>Recent interest in multimodality recognizes the integration of text and image in meaning-making as representing reality. It has also been argued that with the use of digital communication, the meanings of visual and verbal data can be easily manipulated rendering them unreliable. As such, a close and critical reading of the text is required to discover what is hidden, absent, or inconsistent with it. In a deconstruction of a multimodal digital composition of a poem that involves revisioning of history, this paper privileges the absences of cultural and historical texts to signify socio-political issues. An eclectic use of theoretical concepts on meaning-making, especially those proposed by Kress and van Leeuwen, Foucault and Baudrillard, constructs the discussion of the analysis. The digital poem entitled ‘Revenge’ is deconstructed to further discover such absence in the text. The findings reveal that language and images are used by the learner as a source of power to negotiate the boundaries of identity. It has also been discovered that the message in rhetoric and visuals complement each other to support the process of meaning-making.</p>
Highlights
1.1 Prelude to the StudyA growing interest in representing reality has been observed in recent multimodal creative productions, which incorporate the use of selective visual and images as the medium to communicate meanings
In a deconstruction of a multimodal digital composition of a poem that involves revisioning of history, this paper privileges the absences of cultural and historical texts to signify socio-political issues
The deconstruction of the poem investigates deep into the interpretation and transformation in linguistic and visual signs that function as the rhetoric and semiotics of the multimodal text
Summary
A growing interest in representing reality has been observed in recent multimodal creative productions, which incorporate the use of selective visual and images as the medium to communicate meanings. Language and images are the sets of resources used to represent reality via poetry. Visual choices, such as costume and colour have been included in order to enhance the cultural elements chosen (Page, 2009). Such a creation today is different from those produced in the past because of ‘increasing individualism’, ‘neo-liberalism’ and digitalization’ that have revolutionized the means through which people interact (Kress, 2010; Sturken & Cartwright, 2009). This paper argues that reality created by a multimodal production can be influenced by the liberation and empowerment of production
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