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4.1 Introduction of the Film The Color Purple...........................30

4.2 Multimodal Positive DiscourseAnalysis of the Film The Color Purple..................30

Chapter Five Conclusion...................................55

5.1 Major Findings of the Study......................55

5.2 Implications of the Study............................55

Chapter Four PDAof the Film The Color Purple from thePerspectives of Multimodality

4.1 Introduction of the Film The Color Purple

The American film the Color Purple is adapted from the Pulizer Prize-wining novel ofthe same name by Alice Walker and it was directed by Steven Spielberg. The film is about ablack girl Celie who is abused and raped by her step father at age 14. Then she is forced tomarry her “mister”, a brutal man who always terrorizes her. In the face of these sufferings,Celie doesn’t dare to resist. Her life has no changes until she meets Shug who is everythingthat Celie isn’t: Sexy, pretty, and independent. Inspired by Shug, Celie finally gets rid of herhusband and becomes an independent woman.

According to the introduction of the film mentioned above, the heroine in the filmperfectly illustrates the “wominist” proposed by Alice Walker. “Womanist” advocatesresolving the contradictions between men and women and eventually building a harmonioussociety. Through a large number of verbal and visual resources, the film successfully creates ablack female image who lively practices the value of “womanist”. Therefore, it is a typicalcorpus for multimodal positive discourse analysis.

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Chapter Five Conclusion

5.1 Major Findings of the Study

Based on Halliday's systemic functional linguistics, Kress and Van Leeuwen’s visualgrammar, and Martin’s appraisal theory, this thesis draws on the modified multimodal positivediscourse analysis proposed by Lv Wei (2011) to explore the positive attitude of the female,Celie in the film The Color Purple. The thesis mainly examines the positive attitude from theperspectives of language and image. Moreover, their combination is also examined. And themajor findings in the current study are as follows:

Firstly, the change of female’s social status in the film not only can be realized throughlanguage, but also evoked through image, but their forms of realization differentiate fromeach other. The change of female’s attitude in verbal is mainly realized through lexical choice,varying from explicit way to implicit way, by attitude, graduation and engagement resources.While in image the change of female’s attitude is mainly achieved by the attribute or processelements in representation and strengthened by the shooting distance or angle in interaction.But the composition of the image does not contribute much to evoke attitude.

Secondly, the intersemiotic complementarity between visual and verbal is mainlyrealized through repetition, synonym or antonym in terms of ideational meaning andreinforcement of add本论文由英语论文网提供整理，提供论文代写，英语论文代写，代写论文，代写英语论文，代写留学生论文，代写英文论文，留学生论文代写相关核心关键词搜索。