Multi-Modal Discourse Analysis of Public Crisis Anti-Epidemic Documentaries—Take The City of Heroes as an Example

With the rapid development of multi-modal discourse analysis theory, discourse research is no longer limited to text analysis. The documentary brings together multiple modalities such as thematic text, subtitles, images, background music, etc., providing researchers with new ideas. This article takes the documentary The City of Heroes launched by Xinhua News Agency as an example, analyzes the discourse of visual, voice and image modality, and explores the meaning conveyed by the documentary in a public crisis, which is conducive to expanding the multi-modality in the documentary. By discourse analysis, we can understand the way it realizes the meaning of the text

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