Language and Television Series: A Linguistic Approach to TV Dialogue (Cambridge Applied Linguistics)
Cambridge University Press, 9/30/2018
EAN 9781108459150, ISBN10: 1108459153
Paperback, 320 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.9 cm
Language: English
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.
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.