Abstract：In recent years, the development of multi-modal theory gradually attracted people's attention, and has made considerable progress in many areas. However, the analysis of multi-modal theory in news discourse is also one of the few. With the news discourse of multi-modal trends emerge, the traditional mode of discourse Meaning Construction has been difficult to meet the needs of discourse analysis, discourse analysis and news will provide a new perspective and ideas for the era of picture-reading.

 Multimodal is a universal inner characteristic of human life. Halliday has already been aware of the existence of multi-modal discourse years ago. He believes that in addition to language, there are many ways for people to express what they mean, such as painting, sculpture, music, dance and so on. Thus, the interpretation of social behavior and meaning representation should include all non-verbal symbols ideographic resources. 

This paper consists five parts. The first two parts deal with the general situation of the Multimodal Discourse. We will see the significance of the research. The third part is about the theoretical foundation of the study. In the fourth part, linguistic analysis and visual analysis will be reflected by a weibo news , we will find more in the form of multimodal perspective than simply text news. In the fifth part, we will summarize what we have studied on news report, at the same time, we will point out the limitations of the current study and provide suggestions for further study. 

Keywords: multi-modality; news discourse; linguistic analysis; visual analysis

CONTENTS

摘要

Abstract

Chapter One: Introduction-1

1.1 Background of the Research-1

1.2 Purpose of the Research-1

1.3 Significance of the Research-2

1.4 The structure of the Research-2

Chapter two: Literature Review-2

2.1 Studies on News report abroad-2

2.2 Studies on News report at home-3

Chapter three: Theoretical Foundation of the Study: Multimodal Discourse Analysis-3

3.1 The History of the Multimodal Discourse Analysis-3

3.2 The Definition of the Multimodal Discourse Analysis-5

3.3 The Methods of the Multimodal Discourse Analysis-6

3.3.1 The Methods Based on the Social semiotics-6

3.3.2 The Methods under the Guidance of Systemic Functional Grammar-6

3.3.3 The Methods Based on the Multimodal interaction analysis-7

3.4 Studies on the Sense-Making Model of the Multimodal Discourse Analysis-7

3.4.1 Studies on the inner Sense-Making Model of the Multimodal Discourse-7

3.4.2 Studies on the outer Sense-Making Model of the Multimodal Discourse Analysis-9

Chapter Four: The Multimodal Analysis of the Meanings of News Report—A Case Study-11

4.1 The Linguistic Analysis-11

4.2 The Picture Analysis-12

4.2.1 The Representative Meaning-13

4.2.2 The Interactive and Compositional Meaning-13

Chapter Five: Conclusion-14

5.1 Major Findings of the Research-14

5.2 Limitations of the Research-14

5.3 Suggestions for Further Research-14

Reference-15