Discourse Analysis of Conflict Talk in The Painted Veil

Abstract

Conflict talk is one of the most important topics of discourse analysis. This paper, based on the conversations of the film The Painted Veil, is concerned with the sequential organization of conflict talk in the film. Initiating moves, oppositional moves and terminating moves of conflict talks are discussed and analyzed in order to explore how conflict talks show the characteristic of the roles in an art work.