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This chapter draws upon the social-semiotic approach of Kress and van Leeuwen (2006) to analyze Canadian and Quebec images in sixty-five beginning-level French textbooks for the US market published from 1960 to 2010. The qualitative analysis is divided into three parts. The first analyzes how people are depicted in the Canadian and Quebec images with a focus on the ideational (identity and activity) and interpersonal (proximity to viewers). The second analyzes the ideational meaning of cityscapes and landscapes with a focus on the degree of specificity of identity and activity. The third examines three textbooks in terms of multimodality with an analysis of their combined use of image and text to create meaning about Canada and Quebec. Each of these analyses are conducted for textbooks divided by the five decades of the study, and the results reveal an increase in the variation in the meanings constructed through images over time.
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Chapelle, C.A. (2016). Québec Content in Images. In: Teaching Culture in Introductory Foreign Language Textbooks. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-49599-0_4
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