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Dialogue across Media
Editors
With chapters on social media, videogames and human-machine communication, Dialogue across Media provides a comprehensive overview of the role of dialogue in contemporary media. Drawing on the expertise of scholars and practitioners from multiple fields and disciplines, including screenwriters, literary critics, linguists and new media theorists, each chapter provides an in-depth analysis of dialogue in action. Together, these chapters demonstrate the unique energy and versatility that dialogic forms can offer artists and readers alike, and the special role that dialogue plays in helping us to understand the complexities and contradictions of human interaction.
Dialogue across Media provides an essential resource for students and specialists in many fields concerned with dialogue, including language and literature, media and cultural studies, narratology and rhetoric.
Dialogue across Media provides an essential resource for students and specialists in many fields concerned with dialogue, including language and literature, media and cultural studies, narratology and rhetoric.
[Dialogue Studies, 28] 2017. ix, 296 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 27 January 2017
Published online on 27 January 2017
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
- List of contributors | pp. vii–x
- Introduction: Dialogue across MediaJarmila Mildorf and Bronwen Thomas | pp. 1–16
- Part I. Creating characters through dialogue
- Pragmatic stylistics and dramatic dialogue: Re-assessing Gus’s role in Pinter’s The Dumb WaiterSusan Mandala | pp. 19–36
- Dialogue and character in 21st century TV drama: The case of ‘Sherlock Holmes’Kay P. Richardson | pp. 37–54
- Look who’s talking: Using transactional analysis in the writing of effective screenplay dialogueCraig Batty and Wilf Hashimi | pp. 55–76
- All talk: Dialogue and intimacy in Spike Jonze’s HerBronwen Thomas | pp. 77–92
- Part II. Involvement, audience design and social interaction
- Studying everyday conversation: News announcements and news receipts in telephone conversationsAino Koivisto | pp. 95–116
- Dialogic interactions on radio: Studs Terkel’s literary interviewsJarmila Mildorf | pp. 117–136
- Dialogism in journalistic discourse: An analysis of Ian McEwan’s “Savagely Awoken”Marina Lambrou | pp. 137–154
- Friends and followers ‘in the know’: A narrative interactional approach to social media participationAlexandra Georgakopoulou | pp. 155–178
- Dialogue with computers: Dialogue games in actionPaul Piwek | pp. 179–202
- Part III. Playfulness and narrative functions of dialogue
- Dialogue in Audiophonic Fiction: The Case of Audio DramaLars Bernaerts | pp. 205–224
- Dialogue in comics: Medium-specific features and basic narrative functionsKai Mikkonen | pp. 225–250
- Dialogue in video gamesSebastian Domsch | pp. 251–270
- Dialogue and interaction in role-playing games: Playful communication as Ludic cultureFrans Mäyrä | pp. 271–290
- Index | pp. 291–296
“Mildorf and Thomas’ Dialogue across Media constitutes a timely collection of exciting research into the arguably neglected role of dialogue in contemporary media texts.”
Helen Ringrow, University of Portsmouth, UK, in Language and Literature 27 (2)
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