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https://ptsldigital.ukm.my/jspui/handle/123456789/497840| Title: | Multimodal revisioning of the past: deconstructing meanings in selected poems by tertiary Malaysian learners |
| Authors: | Zillasafarina Ja'afar (P66644) |
| Supervisor: | Noraini Md. Yusof, Assoc. Prof. Dr. |
| Keywords: | Multimodal poems Poems -- Malaysia Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia -- Dissertations Dissertations, Academic -- Malaysia |
| Issue Date: | 30-Sep-2020 |
| Description: | The study examines the deconstruction of history in selected multimodal poems produced by tertiary learners. Multimodal poems use semiotic modes in the design to communicate meaning. The following multimodal poems form the corpus of the study: I am Longing, Love and Sacrifice, The Approaching Distance, Betrayal, Breakaway, Sister, Being A Mannequin, Freedom, Revenge and The Order. These poems focus on historical settings, in which selected historical events from the Malay Annals (Sejarah Melayu) and those related to independence (merdeka), have been reconstructed and revisioned. The objective of the study is to reveal hidden voices via the rhetoric, the play of visual semiotics and the rhetorical vision in the integrated multimodal composition. The framework for analysis utilises the following theoretical concepts: salient and framing in social semiotics to examine the sign-making in poetry production; re-visioning strategies in New Historicism to unveil the rhetoric; hyperreality, pastiche and bricolage in the play of visual semiotics to indicate alternative visual sign-making and rhetorical vision as the integrated significance of multimodal creation; as well as absence in Derrida's Deconstruction to indicate what is hidden. The methodology of analysis utilizes the framework to signify the sociopolitical issues within the poems by mapping detailed observations of the learners' choices of resource, creative styles and strategies adopted. Findings reveal rhetorical visions and power operations that expose socio-political issues which are categorised into three paradigms: Women's Realities, Race-based Realities and People's Realities. Analysis reveals the reality that women have been silenced in the public domain. In Raced-based Realities, contestations on hegemony are revealed. In People's Realities, the polemics of governance and advocacy of faulty disobedience are uncovered. The play of visuals reveals social symbols of power while linguistic negation and bricolage disclose political choice and the ambiguous self. The integration of multimodal meanings in the selected poems uncovers three rhetorical visions: complementary meaning-making suggesting constructive criticism; contradicting integration indicating destructive criticism; and ambivalence. This study implicates conflicts in the dynamics of multimodal sign-making in poetry. Likewise, the deconstruction of new history in the poetic production reveals how the present can influence the past to meet contemporary needs.,Ph.D |
| Pages: | 274 |
| Publisher: | UKM, Bangi |
| Appears in Collections: | Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities / Fakulti Sains Sosial dan Kemanusiaan |
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