Television Dramatic Dialogue: A Sociolinguistic Study (Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics) - Softcover

Richardson, Kay

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0195374061 ISBN 13: 9780195374063

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2010

Synopsis

When we watch and listen to actors speaking lines that have been written by someone else-a common experience if we watch any television at all-the illusion of "people talking" is strong. These characters are people like us, but they are also different, products of a dramatic imagination, and the talk they exchange is not quite like ours.

Television Dramatic Dialogue examines, from an applied sociolinguistic perspective, and with reference to television, the particular kind of "artificial" talk that we know as dialogue: onscreen/on-mike talk delivered by characters as part of dramatic storytelling in a range of fictional and nonfictional TV genres. As well as trying to identify the place which this kind of language occupies in sociolinguistic space, Richardson seeks to understand the conditions of its production by screenwriters and the conditions of its reception by audiences, offering two case studies, one British (Life on Mars) and one American (House).

About this title

About the Author:

Kay Richardson is Reader in Communication Studies, School of Politics and Communication Studies University of Liverpool.

Review:

...this affordable book can be recommended to university libraries and students interested in television dialogue research, in particular sociolinguists. * Marieke Haan and Christoph Sauer, English Studies *

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0195374061
• ISBN 13: 9780195374063
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272