Multimodal Representational Meanings of ISIS’s Victims on Facebook
Hamid Tarad Lafta1, Hanita Hassan2, Farah Abdul Jabbar Al Manaseer3
1Hamid Tarrad Lafta, Language Academy, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, JB.
2Hanita Hassan, Language Academy, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. Johor Bahru, Malaysia.
3Farah Abdul Jabbar Al Manasser, Department of English Language and Literature, Al-Munstansiriyah University, Baghdad, Iraq.
Manuscript received on 25 November 2019 | Revised Manuscript received on 04 December 2019 | Manuscript Published on 10 December 2019 | PP: 739-744 | Volume-8 Issue-3S2 October 2019 | Retrieval Number: C12321083S219/2019©BEIESP | DOI: 10.35940/ijrte.C1232.1083S219
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Abstract: After 2003, Iraq faced different terrorist groups that committed massacres against the Iraqis. They presented their violence in media using social networks and particularly Facebook posts. This article investigates the representation of Islamic State in Iraq and Syria’s portrayal of three images posted on Facebook posts. The article focuses on the representational meanings using Kress and Van Leeuwen’s (2006) model as an analytical framework and the discussion focuses on narrative processes. The findings of the current study highlight the effective role played by images in the process of meaning-making by means of narrating the concept of Islamic State in Iraq and Syria style and to portray their ideology through disseminating the message of fear and intimidating.
Keywords: Multimodal Discourse Analysis, Facebook, ISIS, Representational Meanings, Visual Images.
Scope of the Article: Visual Analytics