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The Construction of Multimodal Metaphors in Interstellar
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Abstract
Interstellar is a science fiction film by British director Christopher Nolan. In 2014 Nolan directed the science fiction movie. The movie gives full play to the role of metaphor in movie creation, using verbal symbols such as lines, words and non-verbal symbols such as images and sounds as carriers, and jointly participating in multimodal metaphor construction. Through multimodal metaphors, the film deepens the theme, sublimates the aesthetic experience, highlights the artistic value of the film, and arouses the audience’s thinking and emotional resonance. The use of multimodal metaphors also brings a strong sense of humanity to this science fiction movie. Taking the multimodal metaphor in the film as a starting point, the article analyzes the multimodal metaphor of Interstellar from the perspective the literature review of multimodal metaphor, and the use of multimodal metaphor in Interstellar to reveal its functions.
Keywords
Interstellar, multimodality, metaphor, cognitive linguistics
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Zhi,C. (2023). The Construction of Multimodal Metaphors in Interstellar. Communications in Humanities Research,18,60-68.
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