TRANSITIVITY PATTERNS IN “I AM MALALA”; A SYSTEMIC MULTIMODAL ANALYSIS

Abstract

The present research aims at systemic analysis of transitivity patterns in the documentary “He Named Me Malala” based on the book “I am Malala” written by Malala Yousafzai, the youngest recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. The study will show how reality is constructed thought representations in the images portraying terrorism by Taliban in Sawat valley. These representations are made in form of codes and signs in words and images. The study will provide a deep insight of visual narratives operating in each image/frame. It will show how the documentary is particularly designed to carry the implied meanings in the images, to have effects on the viewers. It will also analyze how different factors in an image contribute to convey multiple meanings and make a documentary appealing, motivating and interesting to its viewers and make it popular in an exclusive manner.  The study will analyze the visual narrative through systemic multimodal that how different transitivity patterns in visual narrative reflect politics of representation. This research will be conducted under multi-modal approach of visual semiotics by Kress and Theo Van Leuween to identify the transitivity patterns in both linguistic and nonlinguistic tools in the text. The research will be effective to understand and learn the application of systemic multimodal analysis of visual images in documentaries based on books. This study will also helpful for those scholars who want to study transitivity patterns in the images and how politics of representation can direct the minds of people to think from planned perspective. The study will guide the future researchers who desire to research and learn visual semiotics as the main research discipline.