Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis of Gender Roles in the SEPH Oxford English

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10.2991/assehr.k.220504.299How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Gender roles; textbooks; Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis

Abstract

With the rise of gender equality awareness, gender stereotypes in textbooks have been widely concerned. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the gender role portrayals in the Oxford English published by Shanghai Educational Publishing House. To achieve this objective, a quantitative content analysis and a case study of multimodal critical discourse analysis (MCDA) are employed, with two frameworks proposed by Halliday and Kress & Van. The result of this paper suggests that there is an imbalance between male roles and female roles. Theoretically, this paper contributes to enriching the research of gender and textbooks from the perspective of MCDA. Practical implications are to promote the complications of textbooks and thus provide better materials for teachers and students to raise their gender conscious.

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© 2022 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Qishan Liang
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/06/01
TI  - Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis of Gender Roles in the SEPH Oxford English
BT  - Proceedings of the 2022 8th International Conference on Humanities and Social Science Research (ICHSSR 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 1645
EP  - 1654
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.220504.299
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.220504.299
ID  - Liang2022
ER  -