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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bednarek, Monika, 1977-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Television broadcasting--Language.

Television broadcasting.

Television series--United States.

Television series.

Television series--Great Britain.

Mass media and language.

English language--Usage.

English language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (294 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

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

Language Note:

English

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 informs it

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; Indices; General Index; Index of Television Programmes

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9786612806445

9781282806443

1282806440

9781441105271

1441105271

OCLC:

670412102