Susan Mandala
List of John Benjamins publications in which Susan Mandala is involved.
Articles
2023 Stylistics, pop culture, and educational research: A systematized review and case study Interdisciplinary approaches to the language of pop culture, Montoro, Rocío and Valentin Werner (eds.), pp. 144–168 | Article
This paper explores how educational research and stylistics, fields that rarely intersect, can be in closer dialogue in the study of pop culture texts, artefacts of interest to scholars in both disciplines. I establish in a systematized critical interpretive synthesis that educational research… read more
2017 Pragmatic stylistics and dramatic dialogue: Re-assessing Gus’s role in Pinter’s The Dumb Waiter Dialogue across Media, Mildorf, Jarmila and Bronwen Thomas (eds.), pp. 19–36 | Article
In this chapter, I follow Short (1989, 1998) and view dramatic dialogue as a form of exchange that can be read on the page just as legitimately as it can be experienced on stage. Employing a pragmatic stylistic analysis linking the text on the page to my interpretation, I offer a re-reading of… read more
2011 Chapter 11. Star Trek: Voyager’s Seven of Nine: A case study of language and character in a televisual text Telecinematic Discourse: Approaches to the language of films and television series, Piazza, Roberta, Monika Bednarek and Fabio Rossi (eds.), pp. 205–223 | Article
Arguing that work in cultural studies has limited the study of televisual character in various ways, this paper outlines an alternative, linguistic method of studying character in television drama by presenting a case study of one particular construct, Seven-of-Nine in the television series Star… read more