Television Dramatic Dialogue: A Sociolinguistic Study

by Kay Richardson

Book Overview

When we watch and listen to actors speaking lines that have been written by someone else-a common experience if we watch any television at all-the illusion of "people talking" is strong. These characters are people like us, but they are also different, products of a dramatic imagination, and the talk they exchange is not quite like ours.

Television Dramatic Dialogue examines, from an applied sociolinguistic perspective, and with reference to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195374061
• ISBN13: 9780195374063
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"