A Genre Analysis of Film Review: A Case Study of English Film Reviews on Chinese Films_英语论文

摘要

电影在人们的生活中越来越重要，因此影评也随之受到大众媒体越来越多的关注。

基于体裁与体裁分析的相关理论，影评也是一种有着一系列交际目的的体裁。本文通过运用Bhatia的语步分析模式和Hasan的体裁结构潜势(GSP)模式，以二十篇从知名娱乐杂志Variety中选取的中国电影的英文影评作为研究对象，并对其进行体裁分析，目的是弄清楚影评的交际目的、组织结构及文本特征。

本研究有助于更好地了解影评这一体裁，以及理解如何组织语篇结构以达到交际目的，为电影媒体或观影者提供撰写影评的参考，这在电影市场和媒体界有着重要意义。

关键词：体裁分析  影评  交际目的

Abstract

As the film plays an increasingly important role in people’s life, film reviews are also getting more attention from the mass media accordingly. 

The film review is regarded as a genre with specific communicative purposes. By employing the Bhatia’s move model and Hasan’s Generic Structure Potential (GSP) model, an analysis is conducted upon twenty English film reviews of Chinese film, aiming to figure out the communicative purposes of the film review, its structural organization and linguistic features. 

This research is conducive to get a further understanding of film reviews and know how to achieve its communicative purposes, which is of great significance in the film industry and the media. 

Key words: genre analysis  film review  communicative purposes 

Contents

Chapter One  Introduction 1

1.1   Purpose of This Thesis 1

1.2   Significance of This Thesis 1

1.3   Research Method of This Thesis 2

1.4   Structure of This Thesis 3

Chapter Two  Literature Review 4

2.1   Introduction 4

2.2   The Definition of Film Review 4

2.3   Genre Analysis 4

2.4   Domestic Studies of Genre Analysis 5

Chapter Three  Theoretical Framework 7

3.1   Introduction 7

3.2   Hasan’s GSP Method 7

3.3   Bhatia’s Analyzing Model 7

Chapter Four  Analysis of English Film Reviews on Chinese Film 9

4.1   Introduction 9

4.2   Communicative Purpose of Film Review 9

4.3   Moves Identification of Film Review 9

4.4   Analysis Based on GSP Theory 10

4.5   Case Analysis and Discussion 11

4.6   Linguistic Features of the Texts 18

Chapter Five  Conclusion 21

Bibliography

Appendices

Acknowledgements