Roberta Piazza

List of John Benjamins publications in which Roberta Piazza is involved.

Title

Telecinematic Discourse: Approaches to the language of films and television series

Edited by Roberta Piazza, Monika Bednarek and Fabio Rossi

This cutting-edge collection of articles provides the first organised reflection on the language of films and television series across British, American and Italian cultures. The volume suggests new directions for research and applications, and offers a variety of methodologies and perspectives on… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 211] 2011. xi, 315 pp.

Piazza, Roberta 2022 Review of Fodor (2020): Ethnic subjectivity in intergenerational memory narratives: The politics of the untold Narrative Inquiry 32:2, pp. 456–459 | Review

Piazza, Roberta 2019 With and without Zanzibar: Liminal diaspora voices and the memory of the revolution Narrative Inquiry 29:1, pp. 99–136 | Article

This paper explores discursive narratives as inextricably linked to the construction of identity, place and history by a number of interviewed individuals. From an interactional sociolinguistics (cf. De Fina & Georgakopoulou, 2012) perspective, the study explores the context of the East African… read more

Piazza, Roberta and Melanie Green 2015 Argumentation in discourse and grammar Handbook of Pragmatics: 2015 Installment, Östman, Jan-Ola and Jef Verschueren (eds.) | Article

Piazza, Roberta 2011 Chapter 5. Pragmatic deviance in realist horror films: A look at films by Argento and Fincher Telecinematic Discourse: Approaches to the language of films and television series, Piazza, Roberta, Monika Bednarek and Fabio Rossi (eds.), pp. 85–104 | Article

In horror films the link between words and images is the key to the relationship between the “represented” and “interactive” participants, as the film characters and viewers respectively (Kress and van Leeuwen 1996). This paper claims that, like crime novels (Gregoriou 2007), horror films are… read more

Piazza, Roberta, Monika Bednarek and Fabio Rossi 2011 Chapter 1. Introduction: Analysing telecinematic discourse Telecinematic Discourse: Approaches to the language of films and television series, Piazza, Roberta, Monika Bednarek and Fabio Rossi (eds.), pp. 1–17 | Introduction