Transmedial narratology conceptualises narrative construal as the mapping of semiotic modes onto the storyworld.The audition episode in Charlie Chaplin's film Modern Times turns out to be a multimodal narrative(a musical pantomime),in which an array of semiotic modes are exploited to represent the storyworld of the nonsense song,with embodied modes(gestures and motions)displacing the verbal(song lyrics)as the predominant modes,with the musical and vocal modes taking the subordinate position.In this article,the functions of different modes in constructing the storyworld are examined in terms of"metafunctions",as proposed by Halliday.The aesthetic politics of the multimodal configuration is interpreted in the textual and historical context of the film with reference to the notion of"tellability".
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跨媒介叙事学/故事世界/多模态/卓别林/《摩登时代》
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transmedial narratology/storyworld/multimodality/Charlie Chaplin/Modern Times
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