The Claim for Stretching English Use in Algeria: A Social Semiotic Perspective to the Online Socio-political Posters

Abstract

Multimodal communication avails from the variety in the semiotic resources constituting different modes. This treatise aims at exploring the ones employed during the production of the Algerian socio political posters, as a point in case. Particularly, the study explores how these resources are craved, interconnected, framed and interwoven to construct and convey messages. To this end, we analyzed the posters (Number=four) -produced during El Hirak 2019/2021- that claim for stretching the use of English. In so doing, we adopted the exploratory qualitative research design vested in the projection of Kress and Van Leeuwen’s model of the Grammar of Visual Design(2006) on the data. The results showed that there are some resources that are used in new ways to create new meanings. We recommend that this work would be of help for specialists and people in general to understand how some political events would be exploited to express more specific meaning.