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Lyrics Translation Study of Movie Video Let it Go (Classical Chinese version) from the Perspective of Multi-modal Discourse Analysis

Menglin Li

Abstract


Let it Go, theme music of animated movie Frozen, issued by Walt Disney Studio in 2013 and was awarded “Best Original Song” at the 86 th Oscars followed by a Movie Video (MV). MV, a multi-modal discourse integrating audio, video, and 3d animation which plays a crucial role in cross-cultural communication. The integrated framework of domestic multi-modal dis-course analysis consists of the levels of culture，context，the content and expression (Lv, Wu, 2012: 36)．This paper will study the lyrics translation of Let it Go (MV) from these four aspects, which can help the audience better apprehend and appreciate the song, and promote the the role’s charisma in the video.

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Multi-modal discourse analysis; Lyrics translation; Let it Go

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.18686/ahe.v7i10.8219

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