However,thelimitsofVG
as
socialsemioticapproachto
one
MDAareas
followed:In
thefirstplace,VGstillstandswith
footinthevisualsemioticworldofmonomodal
a
disciplines(Kress
and
van
Leeuwen,2001);secondly,“VGframeworkdoesnothave
explorationinthe
practicalexperiment
andcritical
dynamic
textindetails.Theresearch
inthisthesistakesseriouslythechallengeissuedbyKressand
setupakindofconnectionsbetweenthestudyof
VanLeeuwen(1996)to
thatofimages
languageand
and
analyzemultimodal
across
textsinanintegratedwayofexploringtheinteractionofmeanings
differentsemioticmodes.
1.3Research
Questions
a
This
thesisadopted
qualitativeapproach
andan
interpreting
one
todiscourse
analysis.MDAanalysis
ismadetofourshotspurposelyselectedfromthemovieTheDa
as
VinciCodewhichislabeled
on
ShotOne....ShotFourandtheanalysisismainlybased
on
a
theproposedmodel
whichiscritical
andpracticalbasis.After
toprobe
that,a
comparativeandinterpretiveapproachisadoptedhere
meaningsand
concerns
reflectedbythemovietext.Alsotheproposedframeworkandsystemofcommon
parameters
inthemultimodaldiscourse
analysis
ofmovieshotsaretestedwhichis
Baldry
inspiredbythe
framework
setupbyO’Halloran(2004)and
andThibault(2000).
Thesecommon
parameters
shouldbemorepracticalandeffectiveinevaluatingthe
uses
moviewhenthefilmdiscoursediversedevices
or
modality
tointeract
and
create
meanings.Also,in
nalTle
thispapertheexactsofstoriesfromtheoriginalnovelwiththesame
are
The
DaVinciCodeshownheretomakea
comparisonwiththemeaning
conveyedbythemovietext,inthatthey
Canprovide
a
better
and
clearorientationofthe
artisticworkwhenitisgoingtoexpresscertainmeanings.answer
a
Inthissense,thethesispaperisaimed
questions,asfollows:
toset
ofgeneral
and
specific
The
generalquestionofthispaper:Howarethemeaningsconstructed
-
throu曲the
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