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.
1. Contributors; 2. Chapter 1. Introduction: Analysing telecinematic discourse (by Piazza, Roberta); 3. Part I. Cinematic discourse; 4. Chapter 2. Discourse analysis of film dialogues: Italian comedy between linguistic realism and pragmatic non-realism (by Rossi, Fabio); 5. Chapter 3. Using film as linguistic specimen: Theoretical and practical issues (by Alvarez-Pereyre, Michael); 6. Chapter 4. Multimodal realisations of mind style in Enduring Love (by Montoro, Rocio); 7. Chapter 5. Pragmatic deviance in realist horror films: A look at films by Argento and Fincher (by Piazza, Roberta); 8. Chapter 6. Emotion and empathy in Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas: A case study of the "funny guy" scene (by Bousfield, Derek); 9. Chapter 7. Quantifying the emotional tone of James Bond films: An application of the Dictionary of Affect in Language (by Kozinski, Rose Ann); 10. Chapter 8. Structure and function in the generic staging of film trailers: A multimodal analysis (by Maier, Carmen Daniela); 11. Part II. Televisual discourse; 12. Chapter 9. "I don't know what they're saying half the time, but I'm hooked on the series": Incomprehensible dialogue and integrated multimodal characterisation in The Wire (by Toolan, Michael); 13. Chapter 10. The stability of the televisual character: A corpus stylistic case study (by Bednarek, Monika); 14. Chapter 11. Star Trek: Voyager's Seven of Nine: A case study of language and character in a televisual text (by Mandala, Susan); 15. Chapter 12. Relationship impression formation: How viewers know people on the screen are friends (by Bubel, Claudia); 16. Chapter 13. Genre, performance and Sex and the City (by Paltridge, Brian); 17. Chapter 14. Bumcivilian: Systemic aspects of humorous communication in comedies (by Brock, Alexander); 18. References; 19. List of tables; 20. List of figures; 21. Index of films and TV series; 22. Index
