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Image "Discourse": A Study Of Film Figures Of Speech

Posted on:2005-02-20Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:X J LiFull Text:PDF
GTID:1115360122991398Subject:Literature and art
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As a kind of speech, film image has its own ideographic purpose, expressive techniques and effect. Besides, as it is established on the basis of machinery and high-tech, it thus has formulated a distinctive expressive speech and wording of its own which eventually results in its unique speech system and rhetorical devices.This dissertation, based on the systematic scrutiny of the actual practice of the film image speech, probes into its distinctive ideographic measure-ideographic characteristics of its expressive of its rhetorical patterns and techniques and its expressive effect. In the light of film rhetorical principles, the author holds that image figures of speech are the most concrete and typical representative of film rhetoric. Therefore, to sort out the fundamental patterns and main functions of film figures of speech is the key issue of and of fundamental importance to the analysis and interpretation of the film's rhetorical principles.The whole article is divided into three chapters.The first chapter, dealing with the contemporary rhetoric and film rhetoric, first gives a brief introduction to the research on the common figures of speech and their essential features. Then, it describes the different theoretical characteristics between the theory of figures of speech of the modern rhetoric and its functions re-interpreted by the post-modern rhetorical theorists. On the study of the common figures of speech, the paper proceeds to propose and discuss the rhetorical features of film rhetoric study on the basis of relative and contrastive study of the film rhetoric and the common linguistic rhetoric. It then discusses and compares the different philosophical implications, different theoretical approaches and different ideographic features in the study of film narration and film rhetoric. In the last place, based on the comparison with the common linguistic figures of speech, it expounds the meaning of image figures of speech, then tries to give it a definition.The second chapter, addressing the essential patterns and dominating features of the film figures of speech, is the main part of the article which is based on the inductive study of large quantity of film scripts. It constructs the patterns of film figures of speech and interprets the theory. In this chapter, the author first discusses the elements and symbols of cinema scenes and its encoding features and then analyzesthe fundamental importance of "basic rhetoric unit" and "combinational rhetoric unit" in film codes related to the film rhetoric and image figures of speech. After that, he puts forward 13 kinds of image figures of speech (each has several patterns of INJ own) and demonstrates their respective pattern and major functions. And with examples provided by some films, the author discusses their ideographic features and meaning representation in actual context and the rhetorical effect they intend to achieve.With the concern of demonstrative devices, the article strives to link theoretical interpretation with pattern construction, to combine functional analysis with main strategy, thus to achieve the corresponding confirmation between theoretical proof and concrete analysis thorough understanding of theoretical generalization of principles and actual text comprehending. In the detailed description of image figure of speech, stresses are laid on their uniqueness as a kind of film rhetoric language while some attention is devoted to the dynamic and motive features between different figures of speech. On the whole, the article argues that image figures of speech are the main method to construct film texts and to deepen their theme, to create and strengthen their major beauty and feelings and to demonstrate and express the various kinds of human nature, psychological feelings and artistic ideas. In addition, they are also an important strategy which are intended to attract the audience to the theme, the meaning they represent and the aesthetic image, and then to arouse their sympathy and give stimulus to dialogue and reflection on life. In...
Keywords/Search Tags:film rhetoric, image figures of speech, linguistic pattern, rhetorical function, rhetorical strategy, aesthetic culture
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