Creating Dialogue for TV: Screenwriters Talk Television

ISBN-13: 9781032178400 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 68 str.

Monika Bednarek

Opis

As entertaining as it is enlightening, Creating Dialogue for TV: Screenwriters Talk Television presents interviews with five Hollywood professionals who talk about all things related to dialogue – from naturalistic style to the building of characters to swearing and dialect.

Spis treści

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

1 Introduction

2 The writers/showrunners

3 On great dialogue

4 On naturalism

5 On the expression of emotion

6 On building characters through language

7 On swearing

8 On dialect

9 Conclusion

O autorze

Monika Bednarek is Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Sydney, Australia. She has authored six academic books, most recently Language and Television Series: A Linguistic Approach to TV Dialogue (2018). Her research interests include corpus linguistics, discourse analysis, media linguistics, sociolinguistics, and the linguistic expression of emotion and attitude.