Telecinematic Discourse. Approaches to the Language of Films and Television Series.

Pragmatics & Beyond New Series #211

by Roberta Piazza (Editor), Monika Bednarek (Editor), Fabio Rossi (Editor)

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 the complexities of telecinematic discourse - a hitherto virtually unexplored area of investigation in linguistics. The papers share a common vision of the big and small screen: the belief that the discourses of film and television offer a re-presentation of our world. As such, telecinematic texts reorganise and recreate language (together with time and space) in their own way and with respect to specific socio-cultural conventions and media logic. The volume provides a multifaceted, yet coherent insight into the diegetic - as it revolves around narrative - as opposed to mimetic - as referring to other non-narrative and non-fictional genres - discourses of fictional media. The collection will be of interest to researchers, tutors and students in pragmatics, stylistics, discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, communication studies and related fields.

328 pages, ebook

First published July 15, 2011

Reviews

[Julia Gillen · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some of it is excellent and every chapter has something to offer. But a firmer sense of direction from the editors would have improved it further.