ABSTRACT Performative acts of reading in websites are defined by interactivity which constitutes a site of action and signs in cyberspace. The interactive potential in websites is further augmented through multimodal representations of content. Multimodality hinges on synaesthetic combinations of multiple modes such as orality, writing, visuality and sound. This paper seeks to examine the multimodal representations of discourses surrounding the news of death sentence awarded to four convicts involved in Delhi gang rape and murder of Nirbhaya in CNN IBN news website. Furthermore, it adopts an approach to locate affective forces that characterise the multimodal text concerning the macro-theme of the news through mediated discourses of affect.

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CNN IBN网站2013年德里强奸定罪新闻的多模态社会符号学分析

摘要 网站中的表演性阅读行为是由交互性定义的，交互性构成了网络空间中的行为和标志。通过内容的多模态表示进一步增强了网站的交互潜力。多模态取决于多种模式的联觉组合，例如口语、写作、视觉和声音。本文旨在研究围绕 CNN IBN 新闻网站上涉及德里轮奸和谋杀 Nirbhaya 的四名罪犯被判死刑的消息的话语的多模态表示。此外，它采用一种方法来定位情感力量，这些情感力量通过情感的中介话语来表征有关新闻宏观主题的多模态文本。