2018•Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Contemporary Education, Social Sciences and Humanities (ICCESSH 2018)Open access
Meaning Construction of Internet News Discourse from the Perspective of Multimodal Discourse Analysis
Yan Liu
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Abstract
Nowadays internet has become the fourth media in the information age and plays an indispensable role in acquiring information and the latest news.Being a new massmedia, internet news is reported with an increasing number of sounds, colors, images and videos to convey the information more vividly and effectively.In fact, the construction of meaning in news discourse depends on both language and other modes.The former researches on news discourse are confined to linguistic features, which are not appropriate for analyzing internet news.Based on Halliday's Systemic Functional Grammar, Kress and Van Leeuwen put forward Visual Grammar, exploring the meanings of discourse from the multimodal perspective, which provide us a new method to analyze discourses.The visual and verbal semiotic modes in internet news are two different resources of meaning, which work together to construct the meaning.This paper will conduct a comprehensive study on the meaning construction of news discourses and offer readers a new perspective for interpreting the meaning.
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