Interpersonal Functional Mood Analysis of the Dialogue in the Film Dead Poets Society

Yuan Lin

doi:10.63313/ESW.69001

Authors

Yuan Lin School of Foreign Languages, Nanning Normal University, Nanning, China Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.63313/ESW.69001

Keywords:

Interpersonal Functional Mood, Dead Poets Society, education, systemic function-al grammar

Abstract

The Dead Poets Society is an excellent educational film with thought-provoking cultural connotation and a story ending that looks like a tragedy but actually a comedy. The film adopts a multi-thread narrative structure to show the theme, and criticizes the phenomenon that the rigid educational system imprisons the idea. The systemic functional theory of functional linguistics holds that the potential meaning of a text can be analyzed through the mood system. Based on the inter-personal function theory of systemic functional grammar, through the interper-sonal function mood analysis of the dialogue of the characters in the film Dead Poets Society, this paper reveals the role of the mood function in helping to ana-lyze the relationship between the characters in the work and the meaning level that the film is intended to convey.

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