“THERE’S JUST KIND OF, SORT OF A SYMMETRY TO IT”: ‘SORT OF’ AND ‘KIND OF’ AS USED IN THE LORD OF THE RINGS MOVIE APPENDICES By MELINA PATRICIA JIMENEZ A THESIS PRESENTED TO THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF ARTS UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA 2007 1 © 2007 Melina Patricia Jimenez 2 To my grandmother. 3 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to thank Dr. M.J. Hardman of the Program in Linguistics for the immeasurable guidance she has provided not only on this study but also in life. I would also like to thank Dr. Hélène Blondeau of the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures and Dr. Diana Boxer also of the Program in Linguistics for their insights, suggestions, and comments on earlier drafts of this study. Their assistance has been invaluable in writing it. Any errors or shortcomings remaining are my own. I thank my parents, my brothers, and Vincent Patrick Norman for their loving encouragement and teaching me to love films which motivated me to complete my study. 4 TABLE OF CONTENTS page LIST OF TABLES...........................................................................................................................9 ABSTRACT...................................................................................................................................11 CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION ..................................................................................................................13 The Language .........................................................................................................................13 The Films................................................................................................................................14 Literature Review ...................................................................................................................17 Gaps.................................................................................................................................22 Hypothesis .......................................................................................................................23 2 METHODS.............................................................................................................................25 The Lord of the Rings .............................................................................................................25 The Book .........................................................................................................................25 The Appendices...............................................................................................................25 Methodology...........................................................................................................................26 Participants ......................................................................................................................26 Materials..........................................................................................................................27 Data Collection Procedure...............................................................................................28 3 DISTRIBUTIONAL ANALYSIS ..........................................................................................30 Variables.................................................................................................................................30 Sociolinguistic Features...................................................................................................30 Linguistic background.....................................................................................................30 Sex ...................................................................................................................................31 Syntactic Features............................................................................................................32 Syntactic Environments..........................................................................................................32 Preceding Syntactic Environment ...................................................................................32 Following Syntactic Environment...................................................................................36 Surrounding Syntactic Environment ...............................................................................38 Peter Jackson ..........................................................................................................................40 4 DISCUSSION.........................................................................................................................43 Meaning ..................................................................................................................................43 Linguistic Background ....................................................................................................43 Syntactic Environments...................................................................................................44 Epistemic Signals ............................................................................................................45 Special-style marker.................................................................................................45 5 Approximation signal...............................................................................................46 Lexical impression signal.........................................................................................47 Self repair .................................................................................................................47 Affective Use...................................................................................................................48 Conclusion ..............................................................................................................................49 APPENDIX A LORD OF THE RINGS THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RINGS APPENDICES PART 1....50 Introduction 1:17 ....................................................................................................................50 J.R.R. Tolkien - Creator of Middle-Earth 22:27.....................................................................50 From Book to Script 19:59 ..................................................................................................50 Visualizing the Story ..............................................................................................................52 Storyboards and Pre-Viz: Making Words into Images 13:29 .........................................52 Early Storyboards (pictures with possible dialogue).......................................................52 Pre-Viz Animatics (pictures with possible dialogue)......................................................53 Animatic to Film Comparison (pictures with possible dialogue)....................................53 Bag End Set Test 6:33 ............................................................................................................53 Designing and Building Middle-Earth....................................................................................53 Designing Middle-Earth41:11.........................................................................................53 Costume Design 11:30 ....................................................................................................55 Weta Workshop 43:02.....................................................................................................56 Design Galleries ..............................................................................................................57 Middle-Earth Atlas ..........................................................................................................57 New Zealand as Middle- Earth 9:50.......................................................................................57 B LORD OF THE RINGS THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RINGS APPENDICES PART 2....59 Introduction 00:28 ..................................................................................................................59 Filming “The Fellowship of the Ring” ...................................................................................59 The Fellowship of the Cast 34:30....................................................................................59 A Day in the Life of a Hobbit 13:05................................................................................61 Cameras in Middle-Earth 49:31 ......................................................................................62 Production Photos............................................................................................................64 Visual Effects..........................................................................................................................64 Scale 15:31 ......................................................................................................................64 Miniatures........................................................................................................................65 Galleries...........................................................................................................................65 Weta Digital.....................................................................................................................65 Post Production: Putting It All Together ................................................................................67