Analysis Of Figures Of Speech And Discourse In Forrest Gump From Stylistic Perspective

Movie is a kind of modern art which is combined with movable photography, diaprojection and achievements of modern science. Forrest Gump is a comedy-drama movie according to a novel of the same name wrote by Winston Groom in1986. The movie Forrest Gump is about the life story of a good-natured simpleton named Forrest Gump living from1950s to1980s in the United States. He was a legend with the colorful life.Stylistics is a branch of linguistics which studies the characteristics of situationally-distinctive impacting on the language use, and tries to establish principles capable of accounting for the particular choices made by individuals and social groups in their language use. Language description can be reflected in the expression effect and communicational functions through specific rhetorical and textual features in certain social context. Stylistic analysis provides a means for learners to enable them to connect a literary work with their own feeling, which enhances the readers’or audience’s experience into a step further.The analysis of dialogues and monologues in Forrest Gump from perspective of figures of speech and discourse in stylistics will not only provide a completely new angle for audience to understand classic movies but also help audience to get clear understanding of themes and aesthetic value of Forrest Gump with far-reach meaning.