The language of fictional television : drama and identity
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The language of fictional television : drama and identity
Continuum, c2010
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [260]-278) and indexes
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Description
In this book, Monika Bednarek addresses the need for a systemic analysis of television discourse and characterization within linguistics and media studies. She presents both corpus stylistics and manual analysis of linguistic and multimodal features of fictional television. The first part focuses on communicative context, multimodality, genre, audience and scripted television dialogue while the second part focuses on televisual characterization, introducing and illustrating the novel concept of expressive character identity. Aside from the study of television dialogue, which informs it throughout, this book is a contribution to studying characterization, to narrative analysis and to corpus stylistics. With its combination of quantitative and qualitative analysis, the book represents a wealth of exploratory, innovative and challenging perspectives, and is a key contribution to the analysis of television dialogue and character identity. The volume will be of interest to researchers and students in linguistics, stylistics and media/television studies, as well as to corpus linguists and communication theorists.
The book will be a useful resource for lecturers teaching at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels in media discourse and related areas.
Table of Contents
- Part I. Analysing Television
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Analysing Television
- 3. The genre of dramedy and its audience
- 4. Television dialogue: features and functions
- Part II. Fictional Television: Character Identity
- 5. Dialogue and Character Identity
- 6. Expressive character identity and emotive interjections
- 7. The multimodal performance
- 8. Expressive character identity and ideology: shared attitudes
- 9. Concluding remarks References Appendices.
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