Date of Award

2007

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Arts in English Composition

Department

English

First Advisor

Hyon, Sunny

Second Advisor

Chen, Rong

Third Advisor

Rhodes, Jacqueline

Abstract

The purpose of this thesis is to examine ten movie posters while hypothesizing whether or not their tagline texts could interest a reader. A linguistic framework Relevance Theory, is used in the analysis of this project.

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