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The Use Of Modalizers In A Film Review: The Passion Of The Christ
Introduction The purpose of this essay is to analyze a film review titled “Good and Evil locked in Violent Showdown” which was published by the New York Times on-line on February 25, 2004. This film review, whose author is A. O. Scott deals with Mel Gibson’s last movie: The Passion of the Christ. The analysis will focus on the use of modalizers following some theoretical basis developed by Geoff Thompson and Randolph Quirk. In the first section I will provide the theoretical framework used for this analysis and the following section will be devoted to the discussion proper. Section 1: Theoretical Basis For this analysis I propose Thompson and Quirks’ theoretical basis in that they give an adequate framework with which to focus on modalization. It is possible to say that any text denotes an interaction between the writer and the reader. For this interaction to lead to a successful reading of the text, the writer must take into account the existence of a real reader, what Thompson calls the awareness of the audience (2001:1). When dealing with the interpersonal metafunction of language, Thompson(2001:2) identifies two specific types of language resources: On the one hand, the interactive devices help to guide the reader through the text; interactional resources, on the other hand, involve the reader cooperatively in the process of decoding and construction of the text. Thompson believes that the reader-in-the-text, i.e the inclusion in the text of a voice that is intended to be attributed to the reader, is a central form of interactional resources because the writer constructs a reader-in-the text with sets of shared attitudes and knowledge so that it does not appear that the writer is presupposing ideas which might be unacceptable for the real reader. For the purpose of involving the reader colaboratively in the interpretation of the text, the writer needs to make use ... Please login to view comments from other users.
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