CRITICAL DISCOURSE, LINGUISTICS AND CINEMA

Authors

  • Mohammad Esmaeil Sheykhani
  • Ebrahim Fayaz
  • Ahmad Naderi

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.32461/2226-3209.1.2018.177289

Abstract

Abstract. Few studies examine the relationship between critical discourse, linguistics, and cinema; applying
micro- and macro-linguistic analysis as a method leading to defamiliarization of the natural discourse of a film. This study aims to analyze the nature of critical discourse and linguistics’ attitude toward cinema, based on which it can be concluded that in cinema, signs in form of critical discourse analysis have significant positions and are defined in relation to other signs of that individual discourse. Signs, which are considered to be central points, are defined differently by other discourses after they are recognized for the first time. Therefore, it is possible to find out the competitions occur in determining the meaning. These competitions are detected through methods of rival discourses, which fixed contents into floating signifiers. Considering the critical comparisons in rival discourses, it can be concluded that each group, based on its specific approach, tries to define the central points and breaksdown the structures of those signs in the rival discourses.
Keywords: Discourse, Cinema, Central Signifier, Sign.

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