Article Open Access http://dx.doi.org/10.26855/jhass.2023.12.010
A Multimodal Discourse Analysis of Planet Earth II from the Perspective of Visual Grammar
Wenyi Cui, Lin Zheng*
China University of Petroleum, Shandong, China.
*Corresponding author:Lin Zheng
Published: January 9,2024
Abstract
As society develops by leaps and bounds, the expression of information and the transmission of discourse is no longer dependent on a single language symbol, but on the interaction and presentation of multiple symbols. Therefore, traditional research on a single text can no longer comprehensively and deeply analyze discourse. Multimodal discourse analysis came into being and gradually became a hot topic in the field of linguistics in recent years. Based on visual grammar, this paper takes the BBC natural documentary Planet Earth II as the research corpus. It selects a large number of images from it to analyze the uniqueness of the documentary of the representative meaning, interactive meaning, and compositional meaning. This paper aims to discuss how the documentary uses modal resources such as text, sound, picture, and layout to jointly construct the overall meaning of the discourse, hoping to bring beneficial creative inspiration and innovative ideas to the producers of the documentary industry and summarize some valuable experience for the development of the domestic natural documentary market.
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How to cite this paper
A Multimodal Discourse Analysis of Planet Earth II from the Perspective of Visual Grammar
How to cite this paper: Wenyi Cui, Lin Zheng. (2023) A Multimodal Discourse Analysis of Planet Earth II from the Perspective of Visual Grammar. Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Science, 7(12), 2455-2459.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.26855/jhass.2023.12.010