Multimodal communicative acts of Thailand’s private hospital website promoting medical tourism
Websites of private hospitals are significant channels for delivering the communicative acts in relation to information of hospitals’ facilities and expertise to international medical tourists. However, studies that involved communicative acts have mainly focused on examining the language mode. I...
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| author | Wan Fatimah Solihah Wan Abdul Halim, Intan Safinaz Zainudin, Nor Fariza Mohd Nor, |
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| description | Websites of private hospitals are significant channels for delivering the communicative acts in
relation to information of hospitals’ facilities and expertise to international medical tourists.
However, studies that involved communicative acts have mainly focused on examining the
language mode. It overlooked the multimodal perspective which hinder prospective international
medical tourists from receiving the intended promotional messages. This study, therefore, aims to
examine multimodal realisations of representative and commissive communicative acts in
Thailand’s private hospital website. Within Systemic Functional Linguistic (SFL) perspective,
Halliday & Matthiessen’s model of textual analysis (2004) and Daneš’ classification of thematic
patterns (1974) were utilised for language analysis, while Kress and van Leeuwen’s (2006)
framework was adopted for visual analysis. Three webpages from a Thai private hospital website
were analysed in relation to theme types and thematic progression for textual function in language
analysis, and information value, saliency and framing elements for compositional function in
visual analysis. Results based on the analysis of the communicative acts in the selected webpages
aimed to inform and persuade prospective medical tourists. The multimodal communicative acts
created a technologically established, sophisticated, reliable and caring representation of Samitivej
Hospital through the high occurrence of unmarked themes, reiteration patterns, salient visuals and
absence of framing. The findings provided communicative strategies to promote medical tourism
to copywriters, website designers and medical tourism stakeholders in designing such websites. |
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| spelling | my-ukm.journal.199222022-09-28T16:00:31Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/19922/ Multimodal communicative acts of Thailand’s private hospital website promoting medical tourism Wan Fatimah Solihah Wan Abdul Halim, Intan Safinaz Zainudin, Nor Fariza Mohd Nor, Websites of private hospitals are significant channels for delivering the communicative acts in relation to information of hospitals’ facilities and expertise to international medical tourists. However, studies that involved communicative acts have mainly focused on examining the language mode. It overlooked the multimodal perspective which hinder prospective international medical tourists from receiving the intended promotional messages. This study, therefore, aims to examine multimodal realisations of representative and commissive communicative acts in Thailand’s private hospital website. Within Systemic Functional Linguistic (SFL) perspective, Halliday & Matthiessen’s model of textual analysis (2004) and Daneš’ classification of thematic patterns (1974) were utilised for language analysis, while Kress and van Leeuwen’s (2006) framework was adopted for visual analysis. Three webpages from a Thai private hospital website were analysed in relation to theme types and thematic progression for textual function in language analysis, and information value, saliency and framing elements for compositional function in visual analysis. Results based on the analysis of the communicative acts in the selected webpages aimed to inform and persuade prospective medical tourists. The multimodal communicative acts created a technologically established, sophisticated, reliable and caring representation of Samitivej Hospital through the high occurrence of unmarked themes, reiteration patterns, salient visuals and absence of framing. The findings provided communicative strategies to promote medical tourism to copywriters, website designers and medical tourism stakeholders in designing such websites. Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2022-05 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/19922/1/55054-184417-1-PB.pdf Wan Fatimah Solihah Wan Abdul Halim, and Intan Safinaz Zainudin, and Nor Fariza Mohd Nor, (2022) Multimodal communicative acts of Thailand’s private hospital website promoting medical tourism. GEMA ; Online Journal of Language Studies, 22 (2). pp. 88-110. ISSN 1675-8021 https://ejournal.ukm.my/gema/issue/view/1518 |
| spellingShingle | Wan Fatimah Solihah Wan Abdul Halim, Intan Safinaz Zainudin, Nor Fariza Mohd Nor, Multimodal communicative acts of Thailand’s private hospital website promoting medical tourism |
| title | Multimodal communicative acts of Thailand’s private hospital website promoting medical tourism |
| title_full | Multimodal communicative acts of Thailand’s private hospital website promoting medical tourism |
| title_fullStr | Multimodal communicative acts of Thailand’s private hospital website promoting medical tourism |
| title_full_unstemmed | Multimodal communicative acts of Thailand’s private hospital website promoting medical tourism |
| title_short | Multimodal communicative acts of Thailand’s private hospital website promoting medical tourism |
| title_sort | multimodal communicative acts of thailand’s private hospital website promoting medical tourism |
| url | http://journalarticle.ukm.my/19922/1/55054-184417-1-PB.pdf http://journalarticle.ukm.my/19922/ https://ejournal.ukm.my/gema/issue/view/1518 |
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