Huimin Guo

This study selects the film Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri as the object of this study, and representative film scenes and characters’ lines are selected as the corpus for multimodal discourse analysis. This paper focuses on the two typical violence and conflict constructed in the film, and takes Halliday’s systemic functional grammar and Kress and Van Leeuwen’s visual grammar as the theoretical basis to analyze two different textual forms, that is language and image. Based on these two theories respectively, pointing out both the role of the implicit meaning expressed by the text in the film discourse. It also points out the complementary relationship between these two modalities. The topic not only complements and expands the existing discourse analysis, but also provides a new perspective for the audience to understand the movie themes better.

Multimodal discourse analysis, systematic functional grammar, visual grammar, Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri

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