Television Dramatic Dialogue

Author : Kay Richardson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2010-04-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 019970595X

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Television Dramatic Dialogue by Kay Richardson Pdf

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).

Author : Kay Richardson
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2010-04-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780195374056

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Television Dramatic Dialogue by Kay Richardson Pdf

Television Dramatic Dialogue investigates dramatized dialogue and how it affects unscripted performances in the way people argue, confide, threaten, and otherwise engage each other.

Author : Monika Bednarek
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-22
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780429639340

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Creating Dialogue for TV by Monika Bednarek Pdf

As entertaining as it is enlightening, Creating Dialogue for TV: Screenwriters Talk Television presents interviews with five Hollywood professionals who talk about all things related to dialogue – from naturalistic style to the building of characters to swearing and dialect. Screenwriters/showrunners David Mandel (Curb Your Enthusiasm, Veep), Jane Espenson (Buffy, Battlestar Galactica, Once Upon a Time), Robert Berens (Supernatural), Sheila Lawrence (Gilmore Girls, Ugly Betty, The Marvelous Mrs Maisel), and Doris Egan (Tru Calling, House, Reign) field a linguist’s inquiries about the craft of writing dialogue. This book is for anyone who has ever wondered what creative processes and attitudes lie behind the words they encounter when tuning into their favourite television show. It provides direct insights into Hollywood writers’ knowledge and opinions of how language is used in television narratives, and in doing so shows how language awareness, attitudes and the craft of using words are utilised to create popular TV series. The book will appeal to students and teachers in screenwriting, creative writing and linguistics as well as lay readers.

Author : Monika Bednarek
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781108472227

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Language and Television Series by Monika Bednarek Pdf

Explores contemporary US television dialogue - the on-screen language that viewers worldwide encounter as they watch popular television series.

Author : Monika Bednarek
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2010-09-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781441105271

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The Language of Fictional Television by Monika Bednarek Pdf

With cases studies used throughout to help illustrate the more general points, this is an analysis of the most important characteristics of television dialogue, with a focus on fictional television. The book illustrates how we can fruitfully and systematically analyse the language of television.

Author : Annemarie Lopez
Publisher : Blake Education
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Mass media
ISBN : 1865095370

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Targeting Media by Annemarie Lopez Pdf

"The Targeting Media series breaks down each media form into its components and provides sample texts, information on the structure and feature of each text type and structured teaching units. Each text type is given comprehensive coverage with a clear descriptive overview followed by interesting lessons for students in middle high school."--P. [4].

Author : Pamela Douglas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015062817021

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Writing the TV Drama Series by Pamela Douglas Pdf

Suitable for screenwriters wanting to create an original series, film school students aware that real careers are on television staffs, or a writer trying to break in. This is a guide to the unique craft of writing a drama series for television.

Author : Bronwen Thomas
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780803240315

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Fictional Dialogue by Bronwen Thomas Pdf

Experimentation with the speech of characters has been hailed by Gérard Genette as “one of the main paths of emancipation in the modern novel.” Dialogue as a stylistic and narrative device is a key feature in the development of the novel as a genre, yet it is also a phenomenon little acknowledged or explored in the critical literature. Fictional Dialogue demonstrates the richness and versatility of dialogue as a narrative technique in twentieth- and twenty-first-century novels by focusing on extended extracts and sequences of utterances. It also examines how different versions of dialogue may help to normalize or idealize certain patterns and practices, thereby excluding alternative possibilities or eliding “unevenness” and differences. Bronwen Thomas, by bringing together theories and models of fictional dialogue from a wide range of disciplines and intellectual traditions, shows how the subject raises profound questions concerning our understanding of narrative and human communication. The first study of its kind to combine literary and narratological analysis with reference to linguistic terms and models, Bakhtinian theory, cultural history, media theory, and cognitive approaches, this book is also the first to focus in depth on the dialogue novel in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and to bring together examples of dialogue from literature, popular fiction, and nonlinear narratives. Beyond critiquing existing methods of analysis, it outlines a promising new method for analyzing fictional dialogue.

Author : Kristy Beers Fägersten
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780815653950

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Watching TV with a Linguist by Kristy Beers Fägersten Pdf

In Watching TV with a Linguist, Fägersten challenges the conventional view of television as lowbrow entertainment devoid of intellectual activity. Rather, she champions the use of fictional television to learn about linguistics and at the same time promotes enriched television viewing experiences by explaining the role of language in creating humor, conveying drama, and developing identifiable characters. The essays gathered in this volume explore specific areas of linguistics, providing a comprehensive yet accessible introduction to the study of language. Through programs such as Seinfeld, The Simpsons, Sherlock, and The Wire, contributors deftly illustrate key linguistic concepts and terminology using snippets of familiar dialogue and examples of subtle narration. In addition, contributors aim to raise linguistic awareness among readers by identifying linguistics in action, encouraging readers to recognize additional examples of concepts on their own. To this end, each chapter provides suggestions for viewing other television series or specific episodes, where further examples of the linguistic concepts in focus can be found. Invaluable as a resource in linguistics and communication courses, Watching TV with a Linguist is the first book to use the familiar and compelling medium of television to engage students with the science of language.

Author : Jennifer O'Meara
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781474420631

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Engaging Dialogue by Jennifer O'Meara Pdf

O'Meara highlights how speech can be central to cinema without overshadowing its medium-specific components, and demonstrates how indie dialogue can instead hinge on an idea of cinematic verbalism.

Author : Eric Friginal,Jack A. Hardy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 746 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780429535628

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The Routledge Handbook of Corpus Approaches to Discourse Analysis by Eric Friginal,Jack A. Hardy Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of Corpus Approaches to Discourse Analysis highlights the diversity, breadth, and depth of corpus approaches to discourse analysis, compiling new and original research from notable scholars across the globe. Chapters showcase recent developments influenced by the exponential growth in linguistic computing, advances in corpus design and compilation, and the applications of sound quantitative and interpretive techniques in analyzing text and discourse patterns. Key discourse domains covered by 35 empirical chapters include: • Research contexts and methodological considerations; • Naturally occurring spoken, professional, and academic discourse; • Corpus approaches to conversational discourse, media discourse, and professional and academic writing. The Routledge Handbook of Corpus Approaches to Discourse Analysis is key reading for both experienced and novice researchers working at the intersection of corpus linguistics and discourse analysis, as well as anyone undertaking study in these areas, as well as anyone interested in related fields and adjacent research approaches.

Author : Alfred Brenner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 187950510X

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TV Scriptwriter's Handbook by Alfred Brenner Pdf

This television scriptwriting course addresses the new scriptwriter on many levels, from the initial impulse to enter the field through the mechanics of commercially successful scriptwriting and the how-to of seeking television work. Brenner offers the basic elements of dramatic writing within the context of developing a television script.

Author : Christian Hoffmann,Monika Kirner-Ludwig
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781350042865

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Telecinematic Stylistics by Christian Hoffmann,Monika Kirner-Ludwig Pdf

Over the last two decades, the study of discourse in film and television has become one of the most promising research avenues in stylistics and pragmatics due to the dazzling variety of source material and the huge pragmatic range within it. Meanwhile, with the advent of streaming and the box set, film and television themselves are becoming separated by an increasingly blurred line. This volume closes a long-standing gap in stylistics research, bringing together a book-level pragmastylistic showcase. It presents current developments from the field from two complementary perspectives, looking stylistically at the discourse in film and the discourse of and around film. This latter phrase comes to mean the approaches which try to account for the pragmatic effects induced by cinematography. This might be the camera work or the lighting, or the mise en scène or montage. The volume takes a multimodal approach, looking at word, movement and gesture, in keeping with modern stylistics. The volume shows how pragmatic themes and methods are adapted and applied to films, including speech acts, (im)politeness, implicature and context. In this way, it provides systematic insights into how meanings are displayed, enhanced, suppressed and negotiated in both film and televisual arts.

Author : Howard Becknell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1951
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IND:32000004657450

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Radio Drama, 1935-1945; Television Drama, 1945-50 by Howard Becknell Pdf

Author : Anthony McEnery,Paul Baker
Publisher : Springer
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781137431738

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Corpora and Discourse Studies by Anthony McEnery,Paul Baker Pdf

This edited collection brings together contemporary research that uses corpus linguistics to carry out discourse analysis. The book takes an inclusive view of the meaning of discourse, covering different text-types or modes of language, including discourse as both social practice and as ideology or representation.