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Explores contemporary US television dialogue - the on-screen language that viewers worldwide encounter as they watch popular television series.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
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.
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Monika Bednarek is Associate Professor in Linguistics at the University of Sydney, Australia. She is the author of five books including The Discourse of New Values (2017) and The Language of Fictional Television (2010). She is co-editor of the international, peer-reviewed journal Functions of Language.
Zusammenfassung
For graduate students and researchers in applied linguistics, corpus linguistics, sociolinguistics, and media linguistics, this book presents brand-new research on contemporary television dialogue, focusing on popular US TV series that are consumed by millions of viewers worldwide, including by those that do not speak English as a first language.
