Abstract
This study utilized a developed MCDA (Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis) framework proposed by Machin and Mayr (2012). It intends to uncover how interceded verbal and visual choices cooperate to show a shift in the construction of the female Saudi lawyer’s identity in two articles, Saudi and Iranian. The framework is indebted to Van Dijk's (1998) work in which CDA was viewed as a multidisciplinary field where ideology was the basic theory. The MCDA showed that both articles, i.e., Iranian and Saudi, maintained different ideologies in their representations of the first female Saudi lawyer's achievement and used different linguistic and visual choices to portray this achievement.
Highlights
Analysts of the Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) field, such as Van Dijk (1993), Fairclough (1995), and Wodak (1997) focused on revealing concealed associations between language, power, and ideology to understand how such discursive discourses are reproduced and maintained to people (Mostafa, 2018)
The framework is indebted to Van Dijk's (1998) work in which CDA was viewed as a multidisciplinary field where ideology was the basic theory
This paper contends that Machin and Mayr's (2012) Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis (MCDA) would improve our view of how interceded verbal and visual choices cooperate to show a shift in the construction of the female Saudi lawyer‟s identity in the two Saudi and Iranian articles
Summary
Analysts of the Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) field, such as Van Dijk (1993), Fairclough (1995), and Wodak (1997) focused on revealing concealed associations between language, power, and ideology to understand how such discursive discourses are reproduced and maintained to people (Mostafa, 2018). MDA was proposed by Kress and Van Leeuwen (1996; 2001) and was lined up with what CDA sought to uncover (Machin, 2016). This alignment introduced the field of Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis (MCDA). The current study hopes to fill that gap in the literature It attempts to reveal the construction of the female Saudi lawyer‟s identity in two articles: Saudi and Iranian. This paper contends that Machin and Mayr's (2012) MCDA would improve our view of how interceded verbal and visual choices cooperate to show a shift in the construction of the female Saudi lawyer‟s identity in the two Saudi and Iranian articles
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