Telecinematic Discourse: Approaches to the Language of Films and Television Series

Piazza, Roberta (Editor)/ Bednarek, Monika (Editor)/ Rossi, Fabio (Editor)

ISBN 10: 9027256152 / ISBN 13: 9789027256157

Published by John Benjamins Pub Co, 2011

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2nd revised edition. 309 pages. 10.00x6.75x1.00 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Telecinematic Discourse: Approaches to the Language of Films and Television Series
• Publisher: John Benjamins Pub Co
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9027256152
• ISBN 13: 9789027256157
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.75 kilograms

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Synopsis

This cutting-edge collection of articles provides the first organised reflection on the language of films and television series across British, American and Italian cultures. The volume suggests new directions for research and applications, and offers a variety of methodologies and perspectives on the complexities of "telecinematic" discourse – a hitherto virtually unexplored area of investigation in linguistics.
The papers share a common vision of the big and small screen: the belief that the discourses of film and television offer a re-presentation of our world. As such, telecinematic texts reorganise and recreate language (together with time and space) in their own way and with respect to specific socio-cultural conventions and media logic. The volume provides a multifaceted, yet coherent insight into the diegetic – as it revolves around narrative – as opposed to mimetic – as referring to other non-narrative and non-fictional genres – discourses of fictional media. The collection will be of interest to researchers, tutors and students in pragmatics, stylistics, discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, communication studies and related fields.