A Multimodal Discourse Analysis of Movie Posters From the Perspective of Visual Grammar — A Case Study of "Hi, Mom"
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.17507/tpls.1203.22Keywords:
visual grammar, multimodal discourse analysis, movie postersAbstract
Poster is one of the main modes of multimodal discourse and plays a very important role in film promotion. Based on the visual grammar system under the framework of meta-functional theory, this paper gives a multimodal discourse analysis on a poster of the movie Hi, Mom. The purpose is to interpret the reproducing meaning, interactive meaning and composition meaning of the film poster, which helps to explore the connotation and thematic meaning of the film poster discourse, so as to help people better understand the theme of the film.
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