旅游博客的多模态语篇研究-外国语言学及应用语言学专业毕业论文.docxVIP

万方数据 万方数据 Abstract Travel blogs are online travel diaries with words and pictures shared by travelers, aiming to provide travel information through the travelers’ own experience, which is a relatively euphemistic way to recommend the travel spot. Travel blog is a multimodal discourse consisting of both verbiage and image. However, the previous studies on travel blog in linguistics mainly focus on the verbal part. Based on Systemic Functional Linguistics, this thesis attempts to make an analysis on both verbiage and image of travel blog in terms of Systemic Functional Grammar and Visual Grammar in order to explore how they make meaning and achieve communication. This study is based on 18 pieces of travel blogs and they can be classified into three types due to different content and communicative purposes: TBI (travel blogs focusing on the introduction to scenic spot), TBE (travel blogs focusing on bloggers’ travel experience), TBT (travel blogs focusing on travel tips). The analysis includes three phases: firstly, the verbal part will be analyzed in terms of Systemic Functional Grammar to discover the linguistic features of travel blogs and the differences and similarities among the three types of travel blogs; secondly, the images will be discussed from the perspective of Visual Grammar to find out how images make meaning and achieve communication; finally, the relation between verbiage and image will be explored to discover how verbiage and image complement and cooperate with each other in making integrative meaning and realizing the final purpose of attracting potential travelers. Through analysis, we get the following findings: first, this study shows that the Systemic Functional Grammar and Visual Grammar are applicable in analyzing the verbal and visual parts in travel blogs; second, the verbal part shows the linguistic features of travel blogs: 1) material and relational processes are the main processes in travel blogs, 2) the majority of the sentences are in