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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812764903321

Autore

Bednarek Monika <1977->

Titolo

The language of fictional television : drama and identity / / Monika Bednarek

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, NY, : Continuum International Pub. Group, 2010

ISBN

1-282-80644-0

9786612806445

1-4411-0527-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (294 p.)

Disciplina

302.23/45

Soggetti

Television broadcasting - Language

Television series - United States

Television series - Great Britain

Mass media and language

English language - Usage

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; Part I: Fictional Television: Dialogue and Drama; 2. Analysing Television; 3. The Genre of Dramedy and its Audience; 4. Television Dialogue; 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. Conclusion; Appendices; Notes to Appendices; References; Indices; General Index; Index of Television Programmes

Sommario/riassunto

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