21.2610, Books: Discourse Analysis/Text/Corpus Ling: Quaglio

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Subject: 21.2610, Books: Discourse Analysis/Text/Corpus Ling: Quaglio

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Date: 14-Jun-2010
From: Paul Peranteau < paul at benjamins.com >
Subject: Television Dialogue: Quaglio

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From: Paul Peranteau [paul at benjamins.com]
Subject: Television Dialogue: Quaglio 

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Title: Television Dialogue 
Subtitle: The sitcom Friends vs. natural conversation 
Series Title: Studies in Corpus Linguistics 36  

Publication Year: 2010 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/

Book URL: http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=SCL%2036 

Author: Paulo Quaglio

Paperback: ISBN:  9789027223166 Pages: 165 Price: Europe EURO 33.00
Paperback: ISBN:  9789027223166 Pages: 165 Price: U.S. $ 49.95

Abstract:

NOW AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK!

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 Grammar Corpus provide the data for this corpus-based 
investigation, which combines Douglas Biber's multidimensional methodology 
with a frequency-based analysis of close to 100 linguistic features. As a 
natural offshoot of the research design, this study offers a comprehensive 
description of the most common linguistic features characterizing natural 
conversation. Illustrated with numerous dialogue extracts from Friends and 
conversation, topics such as vague, emotional, and informal language are 
discussed. This book will be an important resource not only for researchers 
and students specializing in discourse analysis, register variation, and corpus 
linguistics, but also anyone interested in conversational language and 
television dialogue. 

Table of contents

List of tables  ix  
List of figures  xi-xii  
Foreword  xiii  
Chapter 1. Opening credits: Conversation and TV dialogue  1-15  
Chapter 2. Setting the stage: The main characters  17-27  
Chapter 3. Behind the scenes: Methodology and data  29-55  
Chapter 4. Take 1: Dimensions and similarities  57-69  
Chapter 5. Some you know I mean it's really urgh: Vague language  71-86  
Chapter 6. I am just really really happy?: Emotional language  87-105  
Chapter 7. I'm just hanging out. Y'know, having fun: Informal language  107-
121  
Chapter 8. Once upon a time: Narrative language  123-137  
Chapter 9. That's a wrap: Implications and applications  139-150  
References  151-155  
Appendix  157-161  
Name index  163  
Subject index  165  

"The age-old question of whether art reflects or creates reality is never absent 
from this book, and Quaglio's investigation offers a window on the everyday: 
what we hear every day around us and what we hear on TV, both of which 
often startle us by their novelty and creativity, and which seem to feed off 
each other. This book brings corpus linguistics firmly into the world of 
pragmatics, humour, emotion and the ordinary stuff of social talk."
Michael McCarthy , The University of Nottingham 

"Quaglio tackles a question that has been of interest to linguists for many 
years: How are television dialogues similar to, or different from natural 
conversation? The methodology for this study is clearly described and will be 
a valuable resource to language researchers. The detailed descriptions of 
language use coupled with the extensive use of examples makes for 
informative and entertaining reading for a wide range of scholars interested in 
language and its use in different contexts."
Randi Reppen , Northern Arizona University 

"Quaglio's study is thorough, well thought-out, and methodically sound. [...] a 
fascinating linguistic study that will appeal to scholars with a wide range of 
interests: corpus linguistics, conversation analysis, genre studies, language 
perception, and beyond."
Jessie Sams, Stephen F. Austin State University, on Linguist List 21.239, 
2010 

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis
                     Pragmatics
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics

Written In: English  (eng)

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