23.2172, Books: The Language of Fictional Television: Bednarek

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Date: Fri, 04 May 2012 19:17:41
From: Ellena Moriarty [Ellena.moriarty at bloomsbury.com]
Subject: The Language of Fictional Television: Bednarek

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Title: The Language of Fictional Television 
Subtitle: Drama and Identity 
Publication Year: 2012 
Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd
	   http://www.continuumbooks.com

Book URL: http://www.continuumbooks.com/books/detail.aspx?BookId=168446 

Author: Monika Bednarek

Paperback: ISBN: 1441183663 9781441183668 Pages: 304 Price: U.K. £ 27.99

Abstract:

Please note: This is a new edition of a previously announced text.

In this book, Monika Bednarek addresses the need for a systematic 
analysis of television discourse and characterization within linguistics and 
media studies. She presents both corpus stylistics and 'manual' analysis of 
linguistic and multimodal features of fictional television.

The first part focuses on communicative context, multimodality, genre, 
audience and scripted television dialogue while the second part focuses on 
televisual characterization, introducing and illustrating the novel concept of 
'expressive character identity.'

Aside from the study of television dialogue, which informs it throughout, 
this book is a contribution to studying characterization, to narrative analysis 
and to corpus stylistics. With its combination of quantitative and qualitative 
analysis, the book represents a wealth of exploratory, innovative and 
challenging perspectives, and is a key contribution to the analysis of 
television dialogue and character identity. The volume will be of interest to 
researchers and students in linguistics, stylistics and media/television 
studies, as well as to corpus linguists and communication theorists. The 
book will be a useful resource for lecturers teaching at both undergraduate 
and postgraduate levels in media discourse and related areas.

'Monika Bednarek's careful quantitative eye looks around unusual corners 
for a corpus linguist. Her book The Language of Fictional Television offers a 
distinctive, linguistic approach to analyzing popular culture, but draws 
productively on stylistics, cultural studies, media studies and sociological 
frameworks. This book provides a model for linguists who want to combine 
corpus evidence with 'big picture' questions, like how characterisation and 
identity works, and how ideologies are naturalized - and might be challenged - 
both in and out of fiction. The material can be adapted for teaching materials 
in senior undergraduate and postgraduate classes: for example, the chapter 
on how vegetarians and vegetarian foods are construed, and how this is 
involved in character development in the 'dramedy' Gilmore Girls, makes an 
excellent platform for teaching language and ideology.' Alison Moore, Lecturer 
in English Language and Linguistics, University of Wollongong & Honorary 
Research Associate, Centre for Language in Social Life, Macquarie 
University, Australia  

Contents: 1. Introduction \ Part I Fictional Television: Dialogue and 
Drama \  2. Analysing Television \ 3. The Genre of Dramedy and its Audience 
\ 4. Television Dialogue \ Part II Fictional Television: Character Identity \ 5. 
Dialogue and Character Identity \ 6. Expressive Character Identity and 
Emotive Interjections \ 7. The Multimodal Performance \ 8. Expressive 
Character Identity and Ideology: Shared Attitudes \ 9. Conclusion \ 
References \ Indices 

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

Written In: English  (eng)

See this book announcement on our website: 
http://linguistlist.org/pubs/books/get-book.cfm?BookID=60154

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