(Luận văn thạc sĩ) a study on experiential meaning in “snow white and the seven dwarfs” from multimodal perspective

MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING QUY NHON UNIVERSITY VÕ THỊ ĐĂNG NGỌC A STUDY ON EXPERIENTIAL MEANING IN “SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS” FROM MULTIMODAL PERSPECTIVE h Field : The English Language Code : 8.22.02.01 Supervisor: Võ Duy Đức Ph.D BỘ GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO TRƯỜNG ĐẠI HỌC QUY NHƠN VÕ THỊ ĐĂNG NGỌC NGUYÊN CỨU NGHĨA KINH NGHIỆM TRONG TRUYỆN TRANH “NÀNG BẠCH TUYẾT VÀ BẢY CHÚ LÙN” TỪ CÁCH NHÌN h ĐA PHƯƠNG THỨC Chuyên ngành: Ngôn Ngữ Anh Mã số: 8.22.02.01 Người hướng dẫn: TS Võ Duy Đức i ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS In this study, I would like to express my gratitude toward my supervisor Dr Võ Duy Đức with his enthusiasm, his encouragement as well as his patience for helping me finish the master thesis He spent a lot of time reading and correcting the mistakes in my thesis carefully although he was very busy He always encouraged me to seek many articles, read many books, and studied many academic researches to conduct well the study I would also like to express my sincere thanks to the board of directors of Ngo May High School, especially my headmaster - Châu Văn Phú for helping and facilitating the distribution of teaching timetable during the time I took the course Moreover, I would like also to thank my close colleagues for teaching my classes h I am extending my special thanks to all lecturers in the English master course They have taught me a lot of useful knowledge during the two years I took part in this master course Lastly, I would like to express my gratitude to my family for encouraging me mentally and physically so that I could successfully complete this course ii STATEMENT OF AUTHORSHIP I merely confirm that the thesis titled ―A study on experiential meaning in “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” from multimodal perspective” is written only by me and describes entirely the result of my own work I choose many references which have been quoted and all sources of information have been clearly cited The thesis has not been submitted for the award of any other degree or diploma in any university or institution Qui Nhon, 2020 VO THI DANG NGOC h iii ABSTRACT An experimental investigation was conducted to explore the experiential meaning of the verbal structures and the visual images through multimodal perspective in the comic story Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Two main frameworks of theory which are applied for the analysis of this study are Systemic Functional Grammar and Visual Grammar Systemic Functional Grammar formulated by Halliday (2004) is used for analyzing the experiential meaning of the verbal texts in the collected data resources, while Visual Grammar originated by Kress& Leeuwen (2006) is supported to identify the experiential meaning of the visual language in the comic story Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs The findings indicate that while texts in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs comic show the actions and the events with h a large numbers of Material processes, the images mainly focus on the physical actions of the represented participants with the Actional processes Moreover, Relational processes in the verbal texts used to characterize or identify the participants account for a proportion of equivalent rate with Reactional processes in the visual image applied for identifying the represented participants The results of the numerical simulation indicate that circumstances both the verbal texts and the visual images in the comic Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs rotate around the time and place in which the activities or events take place with a large number of Location in texts and Setting in images Implications of the results and future research directions were drawn out iv TABLE OF CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS i STATEMENT OF AUTHORSHIP ii ABSTRACT iii LIST OF TABLES vi LIST OF FIGURES vii ABBREVIATIONS AND CONVENTIONS ix CHAPTER INTRODUCTION 1.1 RATIONALE 1.2 AIM AND OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY 1.2.1 Aim of the study 1.2.2 Objectives 1.3 RESEARCH QUESTIONS h 1.4 SCOPE OF THE STUDY 1.5 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY 1.6 ORGANIZATION OF THE THESIS CHAPTER LITERATURE REVIEW 2.1 THEORETICAL BACKGROUND 2.1.1 Systemic Functional Grammar 2.1.2 The Grammar of Visual Design 20 2.1.3 Summary 31 2.2 PREVIOUS STUDIES 32 CHAPTER METHODOLOGY 37 3.1 RESEARCH METHODS 37 3.2 DATA COLLECTION 37 3.3 DATA ANALYSIS 38 3.4 RESEARCH PROCEDURES 39 CHAPTER FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION 41 v 4.1 FINDINGS 41 4.1.1 Findings of experiential meaning in the verbal text 41 4.1.2 Findings of experiential meaning in the images 53 4.2 DISCUSSION 68 CHAPTER CONCLUSIONS 73 5.1 Conclusions 73 5.2 Implications 76 5.3 Limitations of the study 77 5.4 Suggestions for further research 77 REFERENCES 79 APPENDICES h vi LIST OF TABLES Table 2.1 Verbs serving as Process in mental processes Table 2.2 Summary of the process types 14 Table 4.1 Distribution of circumstances in the verbal text in 52 Table 4.2 Distribution of process types in the images in 53 h vii LIST OF FIGURES Figure 2.1 The grammar of experience: types of process in English Figure 2.2 Narrative Processes in visual communication 22 Figure 2.3 Unidirectional transactional process 23 Figure 2.4 Bidirectional transactional process 23 Figure 2.5 Reactional process 24 Figure 2.6 Verbal process 24 Figure 2.7 Mental process 25 Figure 2.8 Conversion process 25 Figure 2.9 Circumstance of Setting 26 Figure 2.10 Means 27 Figure 2.11 Accompaniment 27 Figure 2.12 Conceptual Processes 28 h Figure 2.13 Classificational process -overt taxonomy 29 Figure 2.14 Classificational process -Covert taxonomy 29 Figure 2.15 Analytical process 30 Figure 2.16 Symbolic Attribute process 31 Figure 2.17 Symbolic Attribute process 31 Figure 4.1 Frequency of occurrence in the verbal text in Snow white 42 Figure 4.2 Frequency of subtypes of Narrative processes 54 Figure 4.3 Non-transactional process [I-140] 55 Figure 4.4 Non-transactional process [I-37] 55 Figure 4.5 Non-transactional process [I- 66] 56 Figure 4.6 Non-transactional process [I-138] 56 Figure 4.7 Unidirectional transactional process [I-20] 56 Figure 4.8 Unidirectional transactional process [I-209] 57 Figure 4.9 Unidirectional transactional process [I-148] 57 Figure 4.10 Unidirectional transactional process [I-310] 57 viii Figure 4.11 Bidirectional transactional process [I-29] 58 Figure 4.12 Bidirectional transactional process [I-309] 58 Figure 4.13 Non-transactional actional process [I-47] 59 Figure 4.14 Transactional reactional process [I-166] 60 Figure 4.15 Verbal process [ I-15] 60 Figure 4.16 Verbal process [I-19] 61 Figure 4.17 Verbal process [I-151] 61 Figure 4.18 Mental process [I-101] 62 Figure 4.19 Mental process [I-221] 62 Figure 4.20 Frequency of subtypes of Conceptual processes 63 Figure 4.21 Conceptual analytical [I-34] 64 Figure 4.22 Conceptual analytical [I-81] 64 Figure 4.23 Conceptual symbolic [I-195] 65 Figure 4.24 Frequency of Circumstances in image in Snow White and the h Seven Dwarfs comic 66 Figure 4.25 Circumstance of Setting [I-31] 67 Figure 4.26 Circumstance of Setting [I-71] 67 Figure 4.27 Circumstance of Means [I-120] 67 Figure 4.28 Circumstance of Means [I-88] 67 Figure 4.29 Accompaniment [I-117] 68