The Importance of Film Annotations in Analyzing Cinema Discourse

Abstract

In this article, discourse is viewed as a complex of linguistic, psychological, and social phenomena which is subject to both the rules of grammar and the more general rules of speech organization, interpretation, and coherence. One of the discourse kinds examined in this article is cinema discourse. It is the outcome of the development of the film text notion and is characterized as a collection of verbal and non-verbal elements of narrative connected to films. The study researches into film annotation as an important concept within film discourse.