چکیده:
Abstract This study aimed to investigate how English language teaching textbooks portrayed male and female social actors according to their social roles and gender identities. To examine the linguistic representation of male and female social actors and construction of gender identities in ELT textbooks, Top Notch series was selected. To do so, attempts were made to analyze the series in terms of the features introduced in two analytical models: Van Leeuwen’s (1996) framework and Halliday's transitivity model (Halliday & Matthiessen, 2004). All of the sentences in reading passages and conversations were counted and analyzed critically through discursive features of these two models. The findings of this study revealed significant differences in representation of male and female social actors in some discursive features. Male social actors were described as more autonomous, successful, and active compared to female social actors.
خلاصه ماشینی:
The Representation of Social Actors in Top Notch Textbook Series: A critical discourse analysis perspective Safoura Davari, English Department, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan Branch, Isfahan, Iran Sa_davari@yahoo.
com Abstract This study aimed to investigate how English language teaching textbooks portrayed male and female social actors according to their social roles and gender identities.
To examine the linguistic representation of male and female social actors and construction of gender identities in ELT textbooks, Top Notch series was selected.
This study took a critical discourse analysis approach to investigate the linguistic representation of male and female social actors and construction of gender identities in the Top Notch series.
So the present study aimed at answering the following research questions: Q1: Are male and female social actors represented differently in Top Notch textbooks?
Recently, Sahragard and Davatgarzadeh (2010) examined the linguistic representation of male and female social actors and construction of gender identities in the texts of New Interchange (Richards, Hull, & Proctor, 2005) from the CDA viewpoint.
Models of the study Discursive features of the models Van Leeuven’s Framework In order to analyze the ways through which social actors were represented in Top Notch textbooks, the researchers applied a critical discourse analysis, and 2 analytical models.
Substitution of Male and Female Social Actors in Top Notch Series Personalization/Impersonalization / Functionalization Classification Relational Identification Formalization Semiformalization Informalization Indetermination Abstraction Objectivation / As Table 7 shows, personalization was mostly realized by semiformalization and followed by informalization.