ISBN:
9781108559553
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource
Series Statement:
The Cambridge applied linguistics series
DDC:
808.2/25014
Keywords:
Fernsehserie
;
Amerikanisches Englisch
;
Dialog
;
Diskursanalyse
;
Konversationsanalyse
;
Sprachstil
;
USA
Abstract:
This book offers a comprehensive linguistic analysis of contemporary US television series. Adopting an interdisciplinary and multimethodological approach, Monika Bednarek brings together linguistic analysis of the Sydney Corpus of Television Dialogue with analysis of scriptwriting manuals, interviews with Hollywood scriptwriters, and a survey undertaken with university students about their consumption of TV series. In so doing, she presents five new and original empirical studies. The focus on language use in a professional context (the television industry), on scriptwriting pedagogy, and on learning and teaching provides an applied linguistic lens on TV series. This is complemented by perspectives taken from media linguistics, corpus linguistics and sociocultural linguistics/sociolinguistics. Throughout the book, multiple dialogue extracts are presented from a wide variety of well-known fictional television series, including The Big Bang Theory, Grey's Anatomy and Bones. Researchers in applied linguistics, discourse analysis, critical discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, sociolinguistics and media linguistics will find the book both stimulating and unique in its approach.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 24 Sep 2018)
DOI:
10.1017/9781108559553
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108559553
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