黑龙江大学硕士学位论文
Chapter2LiteratureReview
2.1Overviewof
Multimodal
DiscourseAnalysis
2.1.1Introduction
Halliday(1991)hasstatedthatthetwentiethcenturyWasthe“ageofdisciplines,
whenknowledgewasorganizedintosubjectseachhavingitsowndomain,its
own
conceptoftheory,anditsownbodyofmethod”.Theemergingfieldofmultimodalstudiesstandsin
aninteresting
historicalrelationship、) ̄,itllsuchchanges.Jewitt(2009)
describedthephenomenonofmultimodalityhasgeneratedinterests‘‘acrossmany
disciplines…against
the
backdrop
ofconsiderablesocial
change’’where
social
boundarieshavebecomefluid,networkedandtransient.
focuses
on
Whilethe
traditionalstudyofdiscourseanalysis
themonomodal
ofthewhen
text-一language,a
multimodal
expressing
text
newtermdrewpeople’Swhich
involves
attentionto
discourseanalysis
of
many
differentmodescommunication
meanings.This
newmethodofresearchhasbecomethemostexcitingfield
forthe
linguists.
andVanLeeuwen(2001)claimed
twentieth
century
Kress
inspired
thatthe‘‘desireforcrossingboundaries
inthe
range
semiotics”,particularly
ofmultimodal
phenomenawhichitsoughttobringwithinitstheoreticalcompassinthegoalof‘‘a
theoreticalframeworkapplicabletoallsemioticmodes,fromfolkcostumetopoetry,
fromtrafficsignstoclassicalmusic,fromfashiontotheatre.’’
Thishasbeenachievedbytheattentiveexplorationofthescholarswhohavemadecontributionin
thisfield.Andthe
firstthingto
be
considered
isthenotion
of
multimodalityandthesocial,economical,cultural
Alsothe
background
ofmultimodaldiscourse.
bevaluedinthis
majorfindingsandachievementoftheformerlinguistsshould
.
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