Language and Television Series: A Linguistic Approach to TV Dialogue

ISBN-13: 9781108472227 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 318 str.

Monika Bednarek

Opis

Explores contemporary US television dialogue - the on-screen language that viewers worldwide encounter as they watch popular television series

Spis treści

Part I. Introduction: 1. Television dialogue; 2. Linguistic approaches to telecinematic discourse; Part II. A Functional Approach to Television Series (FATS): 3. Functions relating to the communication of the narrative; 4. Other functions of TV dialogue; Part III. Data and Approaches: 5. Corpora and corpus linguistic methods; 6. Other approaches; Part IV. Analyses of SydTV: 7. Salient features of TV dialogue: a corpus linguistic approach; 8. Key words, variation, and further insights into TV dialogue; 9. Non-codified language in SydTV; Part V. TV Dialogue in Pedagogy: 10. 'Take that pencil and just GO!': TV series and scriptwriting pedagogy; 11. Consuming television dialogue: a case study of advanced learners in Germany; Part VI. Conclusion: 12. Conclusion.