Interpretation of Día de Muertos in the movie Coco

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10.2991/ichssr-19.2019.12How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Día de Muertos, cultural conceptualizations, Cultural Linguistics, Coco

Abstract

Adopting the analytical tools of cultural conceptualizations in Cultural Linguistics, this study examines cultural schemas of Día de Muertos, a Mexican celebration day of the deceased. It holds that Día de Muertos can be interpreted as event schemas for cultural reconstruction, family reunion and interpersonal bond reinforcement. This distinct cultural phenomenon is fully depicted in the movie Coco through multimodal resources of linguistic choices, colors, images and music, which presents audience a distinct perspective of understanding death in Mexican culture. It concludes that the analytical tools of Cultural Linguistics are effective in investigating cultural phenomenon in films.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Yan Jiang
AU  - Ruimei Song
PY  - 2019/05
DA  - 2019/05
TI  - Interpretation of Día de Muertos in the movie Coco
BT  - Proceedings of the 2019 5th International Conference on Humanities and Social Science Research (ICHSSR 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 60
EP  - 64
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/ichssr-19.2019.12
DO  - 10.2991/ichssr-19.2019.12
ID  - Jiang2019/05
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