In:Telecinematic Discourse: Approaches to the language of films and television series
Edited by Roberta Piazza, Monika Bednarek and Fabio Rossi
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 211] 2011
► pp. v–viii
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Table of contents
Contributors
Chapter 1. Introduction: Analysing telecinematic discourse
Part I. Cinematic discourse
Chapter 2. Discourse analysis of film dialogues: Italian comedy between linguistic realism and pragmatic non-realism
Chapter 3. Using film as linguistic specimen: Theoretical and practical issues
Chapter 4. Multimodal realisations of mind style in Enduring Love
Chapter 5. Pragmatic deviance in realist horror films: A look at films by Argento and Fincher
Chapter 6. Emotion and empathy in Martin Scorsese’s Goodfellas: A case study of the “funny guy” scene
Chapter 7. Quantifying the emotional tone of James Bond films: An application of the Dictionary of Affect in Language
Chapter 8. Structure and function in the generic staging of film trailers: A multimodal analysis
Part II. Televisual discourse
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
Chapter 10. The stability of the televisual character: A corpus stylistic case study
Chapter 11. Star Trek: Voyager’s Seven of Nine: A case study of language and character in a televisual text
Chapter 12. Relationship impression formation: How viewers know people on the screen are friends
Chapter 13. Genre, performance and Sex and the City
Chapter 14. Bumcivilian: Systemic aspects of humorous communication in comedies
References
List of tables303
List of figures305
Index of films and TV series
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