Research on Multimodal Metaphor in Mountain May Depart Under the Cross-cultural Context

摘要

Research on multimodal metaphor breaks the limitation of traditional research on language, extends to multimodal symbols like images, sound and music, and enhances people's understandings on features and mechanism of metaphor. Since multimodal metaphors are quite common in films, this study discusses and analyzes them in a Chinese film Mountain May Depart to explore how multimodal metaphors are formed to express the theme and gain people's understandings and acceptance from different cultures better under the cross-cultural context.