Multimodal Discourse Analysis of Sheldon’s Irony Illocutionary Act

通过系统整合语言符号和非语言符号的协同作用，研究以五类言语行为理论和多模态综合分析框架下的表达层面为理论框架，采用多模态定量和定性分析相结合的研究方法，分析《生活大爆炸》主角谢尔顿的反讽言语行为，探究多模态资源协同塑造人物形象的机制。研究发现：1) 谢尔顿反讽言语行为主要以阐述类体现；2) 语言模态、动作模态、视觉模态、听觉模态等资源共同塑造了谢尔顿“高智商低情商”的典型形象特征；3) 语言模态在谢尔顿形象塑造中起主导作用。By systematically integrating synergistic effects of linguistic modality and non-linguistic modality, this study, taking formal level under synthetic theoretical framework for multimodal discourse analysis and five categories of illocutionary act theory as theoretical basis, self-constructs corpus and adopts a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods. It analyzes the irony illocutionary act of Sheldon, the protagonist of The Big Bang Theory, aiming to explore the characterization shaped by multimodal resources. It is found that: 1) Sheldon’s irony illocutionary act is primarily embodied in representative; 2) Linguistic modality, visual modality, and auditory modality jointly shape Sheldon’s typical characterization of “high IQ and low EQ”; 3) linguistic modality plays a dominant role.