Paulo Quaglio

List of John Benjamins publications in which Paulo Quaglio is involved.

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Television Dialogue: The sitcom Friends vs. natural conversation

Paulo Quaglio

This book explores a virtually untapped, yet fascinating research area: television dialogue. It reports on a study comparing the language of the American situation comedy Friends to natural conversation. Transcripts of the television show and the American English conversation portion of the Longman… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 36] 2009. xiii, 165 pp

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Quaglio, Paulo 2008 9. Television dialogue and natural conversation: Linguistic similarities and functional differences Corpora and Discourse: The challenges of different settings, Ädel, Annelie and Randi Reppen (eds.), pp. 189–210 | Article

Motivated by ESL (English as a Second Language) concerns, this study compares the language of a U.S. situation comedy, Friends, with natural conversation. A corpus of transcripts of the television show and the American conversation subcorpus of the Longman Grammar Corpus are used for analysis. This… read more