Title: Language and television series : a linguistic approach to TV dialogue /
Authors: Bednarek, Monika, 1977-
Year: 2018
Subjects: Television broadcasting Language.; Dialogue in television programs; Dialogue analysis.; Discourse analysis.; Dialogue analysis; Dialogue in television programs; Discourse analysis; Television broadcasting Language; Dialog; Fernsehserie; Sprachstil
Abstract: "A comprehensive analysis of contemporary US 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 scriptwriters, and a survey undertaken with university students about their consumption of TV series. In so doing, she creates 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 that 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, CDA, corpus linguistics, sociolinguistics and media linguistics will find the book both stimulating and unique in its approach"--
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.