The Multimodal Construction Of Attitudinal Meaning Through The Lens Of Appraisal Theory

As a emerging field of research,multimodal interaction analysis is in the continuous innovation either in theoretical views or in practical applications.The fundamental commonsense is that non-linguistic resources are equal to linguistic ones for making meaning.Appraisal Theory,the rising star of systematic functional linguistics,incessantly produces mutually equilibrating linguistic and non-linguistic applications in order to make its applied probability broader and more comprehensive.The analytical data of thesis is chosen as a appropriate coupling between these two and it turns out that linguistic modes interact with other modes so as to realize a full view of construction of Attitude in human communication.Therefore,how linguistic modes and non-linguistic ones co-work to realize attitudinal meaning is the main research question to settle in this thesis.The preschool television Peppa Pig is viewed as the object of research,together with Multimodal Analysis Video as the instrument for data collection and data analysis so that attitudinal meaning can be multimodally constructed through interactions of communicative modes.The thesis is aimed at solving two major problems: one is what the resources' distribution of Attitude under interactions of linguistic and non-linguistic modes is;the other is how modes realize the multimodal construction of attitudinal meaning.As for results,positive Attitude is the main stream,Affect resources playing most dynamically yet Judgement in the least position.Through analyzing data step by step,a multimodal expressing framework of attitudinal meaning comes into being,though its applied scope and influence tend towards further testifying.The research results broaden the range of Appraisal Theory and Multimodal Interaction Analysis and provide a new perspective of multimodal Attitude in video discourse,helping people better understand video discourses.