23.627, Books: Discourse Analysis/Sociolinguistics: Forchini

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Date: 06-Feb-2012
From: Laura Bally [publicity at peterlang.com]
Subject: Movie Language Revisited: Forchini

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From: Laura Bally [publicity at peterlang.com]
Subject: Movie Language Revisited: Forchini

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Title: Movie Language Revisited 
Subtitle: Evidence from Multi-Dimensional Analysis and Corpora 
Series Title: Lingue e Culture/Languages and Cultures/Langues et Cultures - Volume 1  

Publication Year: 2012 
Publisher: Peter Lang AG
	   http://www.peterlang.com

Book URL: http://www.peterlang.com/?431076 

Author: Pierfranca Forchini

Paperback: ISBN:  9783034310765 Pages: 142 Price: U.S. $ 47.95
Paperback: ISBN:  9783034310765 Pages: 142 Price: U.K. £ 28.00
Paperback: ISBN:  9783034310765 Pages: 142 Price: Europe EURO 31.40 Comment: for Germany EURO 33.60, for Austria EURO 34.50 (incl. VAT)

Abstract:

This book explores the linguistic nature of American movie conversation, 
pointing out its resemblances to face-to-face conversation. The reason for 
such an investigation lies in the fact that movie language is traditionally 
considered to be non-representative of spontaneous language. The book 
presents a corpus-driven study of the similarities between face-to-face and 
movie conversation, using detailed consideration of individual lexical phrases 
and linguistic features as well as Biber's Multi-Dimensional Analysis (1998). 
The data from an existing spoken American English corpus - the Longman 
Spoken American Corpus - is compared to the American Movie Corpus, a 
corpus of American movie conversation purposely built for the research. On 
the basis of evidence from these corpora, the book shows that contemporary 
movie conversation does not differ significantly from face-to-face 
conversation, and can therefore be legitimately used to study and teach 
natural spoken language. 

Contents: Opening Credits: Face-to-Face and Movie Conversation - The 
Making of: Methodology and Data - Shot 1: Multi-Dimensional Analysis of 
Face-to-Face and Movie Conversation - Shot 2: Close-ups - Closing Credits: 
Implications and Applications. 

Pierfranca Forchini has an MA in Foreign Languages and Literatures, an MA 
in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, and a PhD in Linguistic and Literary 
Sciences. Her interests are the lexico-grammar interface of spoken and 
movie language, American English phraseology and phonology, corpus 
linguistics, contrastive linguistics and audio-visual translation. She currently 
lectures in English Linguistics at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, 
Italy. 

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis
                     Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Written In: English  (eng)

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