Open AccessMultimodal Discourse Analysis of the Movie Argo
Author(s) -
Bo Xu
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
english language teaching
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1916-4750
pISSN - 1916-4742
DOI - 10.5539/elt.v11n4p132
Subject(s) - argo , perspective (graphical) , discourse analysis , context (archaeology) , ideology , mainstream , linguistics , multimodal therapy , psychology , meaning (existential) , critical discourse analysis , sociology , artificial intelligence , computer science , politics , history , philosophy , oceanography , theology , archaeology , political science , law , psychotherapist , geology
Based on multimodal discourse theory, this paper makes a multimodal discourse analysis of some shots in the movie Argo from the perspective of context of culture, context of situation and meaning of image. Results show that this movie constructs multimodal discourse through particular context, language and image, and successfully publicizes western mainstream ideology.