"Poof! a'm heppily saving the Lord...": multimodality and evaluative discourses in male toilet graffiti at the University of the Western Cape

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dc.contributor.authorFerris, Fiona S.
dc.contributor.authorBanda, Felix
dc.date.accessioned09/05/2017 14:49
dc.date.available09/05/2017 14:49
dc.date.issued2015
dc.description.abstractThis paper explores the use of punctuation, capitalisation, linguistic forms and images in the construction of evaluative discourses in male toilet graffiti at the University of the Western Cape. Of particular interest is how male students use these devises in the discursive construction of the appraisal resource of Attitude, Graduation and Evaluation. Using over 150 tokens of graffiti, the paper uses a multimodal approach employing notions of resemiotisation and remediation to show how taboo language, font size, images and sketches are repurposed to aid the evaluation of the 'self' and the 'other' in toilet graffiti. The paper shows that through utilising multimodal texts, graffiti writers are able to reformulate and situate novel meanings in contexts; and in terms of appraisal, the verbal and non-verbal semiotic material are strategically combined to engender novel evaluations.en_US
dc.identifier.citationFerris, F. S. & Banda, F. (2015). "Poof! a'm heppily saving the Lord...": multimodality and evaluative discourses in male toilet graffiti at the University of the Western Cape. African Identities, 13(4): 243-261en_US
dc.identifier.issn1472-5843
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10566/2824
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14725843.2015.1087302
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.privacy.showsubmitterFALSE
dc.publisherTaylor & Francisen_US
dc.rightsThis is the author-version of the article published online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14725843.2015.1087302
dc.status.ispeerreviewedTRUE
dc.subjectToilet graffitien_US
dc.subjectEvaluative discourseen_US
dc.subjectAppraisalen_US
dc.subjectUniversity of the Western Capeen_US
dc.subjectMultimodalityen_US
dc.title"Poof! a'm heppily saving the Lord...": multimodality and evaluative discourses in male toilet graffiti at the University of the Western Capeen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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