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Abstracts - Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa

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TERESA CASTINEIRA, BENEMÉRITA UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE PUEBLASELF-REPRESENTATION OF TRAUMA: AN APPRAISAL, MULTIMODAL ANALYSISThis in-progress <strong>da</strong>ta-driven study examines the various semiotic resources ofdiscourse (language, pictures, colors, and symbols among other) utilized by EFLlearners who wrote about traumatic experiences such as rape, racism, and loss intheir autobiographies. Various approaches are used in the analysis of theseautobiographies such as genre analysis (An<strong>de</strong>rson, 2011), multimo<strong>da</strong>lity (Kress &van Leeuwen, 2005; Jones & Ventola, 2008), and appraisal (Martin & White, 2005).The autobiographies were written at the end of the 6 th . Level English course (B2according to the CEFr.) by stu<strong>de</strong>nts who are majoring in English Language Teachingin a public university in Mexico. 10 autobiographies were selected, five written byfemales, and five by males.The writers of these autobiographies express their feelings of <strong>de</strong>spair, frustration,and pain with different linguistic resources, which were categorized un<strong>de</strong>r the threesystems of appraisal: engagement, attitu<strong>de</strong> and graduation. Subsequently, theseresources were categorized un<strong>de</strong>r the various appraisal sub-systems. Extractsexemplifying these categorizations will be displayed. Besi<strong>de</strong>s language, writers useddifferent semiotic mo<strong>de</strong>s such as family pictures and paper with subliminalmessages to express other feelings. Samples of these resources will be presented.Due to the limited amount of <strong>da</strong>ta, generalizations cannot be drawn, however, wemay conclu<strong>de</strong> that by expressing their feelings through different semiotic mo<strong>de</strong>s,these autobiographies may represent liberating tools for these particular EFLlearners.PAPER SESSION 1E, ROOM 5 - MONDAY 25 JULYISFC38 Book of <strong>Abstracts</strong> Page 190 Lisbon, July 2011

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