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Author Bednarek, Monika, 1977-

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

Publication Info. London ; New York : Continuum, [2010]
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Description 1 online resource (285 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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Contents 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; indexes; General Index; Index of Television Programmes.
Summary 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 inform.
Subject Television broadcasting -- Language.
Television series -- United States.
Television series -- Great Britain.
Mass media and language.
English language -- Usage.
Language and languages -- Linguistics.
English language -- Usage. (OCoLC)fst00911918
Mass media and language. (OCoLC)fst01011351
Television broadcasting -- Language. (OCoLC)fst01146745
Television series. (OCoLC)fst01720041
Great Britain. (OCoLC)fst01204623
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Taalgebruik.
Televisieseries.
Engels.
PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: 9786612806445
Standard No. 9786612806445
ISBN 9781441105271 (electronic bk.)
1441105271 (electronic bk.)
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