The Meaning Making Mechanism of Global News Live Broadcasts from the Multimodal Perspective

DOI

10.2991/icmess-18.2018.374How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Multimodality; Multimodal social-semiotic theory of communication; Television communication; Global news

Abstract

This paper introduces Kress’s and Van Leeuwen’s (2001) multimodal social-semiotic theory of communication to the field of television communication and applies this theory to examination of multimodal data generated from authentic television events. Using live broadcasts of MH370 press conferences as the example, this paper adopts the analytical framework of stratal configuration, which looks at meaning making in any communicative practice from discourse, design, production and distribution domains, and also takes into account the embedded structure of television communication featuring the data. Detailed discourse analysis is carried out to illustrate how meaning is made multimodally in the interpreter-mediated live broadcasts of global news.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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