Television Dramatic Dialogue: A Sociolinguistic Study - Rilegato

Richardson, Kay

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ISBN 10: 0195374053 ISBN 13: 9780195374056

Casa editrice: OUP USA, 2010

Riassunto

When we watch and listen to actors speaking lines that have been written by someone else-a common experience if we watch any television at all-the illusion of "people talking¨is strong. These characters are people like us, but they are also different, products of a dramatic imagination, and the talk they exchange is not quite like ours.

Television Dramatic Dialogue examines, from an applied sociolinguistic perspective, and with reference to television, the particular kind of ärtificial¨talk that we know as dialogue: onscreen/on-mike talk delivered by characters as part of dramatic storytelling in a range of fictional and nonfictional TV genres. As well as trying to identify the place which this kind of language occupies in sociolinguistic space, Richardson seeks to understand the conditions of its production by screenwriters and the conditions of its reception by audiences, offering two case studies, one British (Life on Mars) and one American (House).

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Kay Richardson is Reader in Communication Studies, School of Politics and Communication Studies University of Liverpool.

Contenuti:

• 1.: Introduction
• 2.: Previous Research
• 3.: What Is TV Dialogue Like?
• 4.: What TV Screenwriters Know About Dialogue.
• 5.: What Audiences Know About Dialogue.
• 6.: Dialogue As Social Interaction.
• 7.: Dialogue, Character and Social Cognition
• 8.: Dialogue and Dramatic Meaning: Life on Mars
• 9.: House and snark
• 10.: Conclusion
• Bibliography
• Appendix: List of television shows referred to

Su questa edizione

• Editore: OUP USA
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0195374053
• ISBN 13: 9780195374056
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 272