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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      September 2018
      October 2018
      ISBN:
      9781108559553
      9781108472227
      9781108459150
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108559553
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.57kg, 318 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.46kg, 318 Pages
      • Series:
      Cambridge Applied Linguistics
      Subjects:
      Applied Linguistics, Film, Media, Mass Communication, Media, Mass Communication, Language and Linguistics
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    Series:
    Cambridge Applied Linguistics
    Subjects:
    Applied Linguistics, Film, Media, Mass Communication, Media, Mass Communication, Language and Linguistics
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    This book offers a comprehensive linguistic analysis of contemporary US television series. Adopting an interdisciplinary and multimethodological approach, Monika Bednarek brings together linguistic analysis of the Sydney Corpus of Television Dialogue with analysis of scriptwriting manuals, interviews with Hollywood scriptwriters, and a survey undertaken with university students about their consumption of TV series. In so doing, she presents five new and original empirical studies. The focus on language use in a professional context (the television industry), on scriptwriting pedagogy, and on learning and teaching provides an applied linguistic lens on TV series. This is complemented by perspectives taken from media linguistics, corpus linguistics and sociocultural linguistics/sociolinguistics. Throughout the book, multiple dialogue extracts are presented from a wide variety of well-known fictional television series, including The Big Bang Theory, Grey's Anatomy and Bones. Researchers in applied linguistics, discourse analysis, critical discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, sociolinguistics and media linguistics will find the book both stimulating and unique in its approach.

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