Language and television series : a linguistic approach to TV dialogue /

A comprehensive analysis of contemporary U.S. television series. Combining an interdisciplinary and multi-methodological approach, Monika Bednarek brings together linguistic analysis of the new Sydney Corpus of Television Dialogue with analysis of scriptwriting manuals, interviews with Hollywood scr...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bednarek, Monika, 1977- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Series:Cambridge applied linguistics series.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Television dialogue
  • Linguistic approaches to telecinematic discourse
  • Functions relating to the communication of the narrative
  • Other functions of TV dialogue
  • Corpora and corpus linguistic methods
  • Other approaches
  • Salient features of TV dialogue : a corpus linguistic approach
  • Key words, variation, and further insights into TV dialogue
  • Non-codified language in SydTV
  • "Take that pencil and just go!" : TV series and scriptwriting pedagogy
  • Consuming television dialogue : a case study of advanced learners in Germany.