Contemporary Foreign Languages Studies ›› 2015, Vol. 15 ›› Issue (09): 20-25.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1674-8921.2015.09.004

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A Multimodal Stylistic Study on the Two Covers of Graham Rawle’s Woman’s World

LEI Qian, ZHANG Delu   

  • Online:2015-09-28 Published:2020-07-25

Abstract: The cover of a novel is itself a multimodal meaning integration of verbal mode, image, typography, layout and color, and it is also integrated with the meaning of the content of the novel. In the present study, two versions of the covers of modern British writer Graham Rawle’s Woman’s World are chosen as research objects, and on the basis of the multimodal stylistic framework of Zhang Delu (2012), a new approach to analyze multimodal covers is proposed by adding some new modes, such as typography, layout and color to it. By employing this approach, the multimodal stylistic features and the meaning realizations of the two covers, the inter-semiotic relations of the covers and the integration of the covers and the content of the novel are comparatively studied. The results show that the cover of the 2008 version can more appropriately convey the deep experiential meaning and interpersonal meaning of the novel to readers and fulfill its function.

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