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OverviewThis title includes linguistic investigation of the dialogue of Italian cinema, using concepts and methodologies from pragmatics, conversation analysis and discourse analysis. Roberta Piazza's book is a linguistic investigation of the dialogue of Italian cinema covering a selection of films from the 1950s to the present day. It looks at how speech is dealt with in studies of the cinema and tackles the lack of engagement with dialogue in film studies. It explores the representation of discourse in cinema - the way particular manifestations of verbal interaction are reproduced in film. Whereas 'representation' generally refers to the language used in texts to assign meaning to a group and its social practices, here discourse representation more directly refers to the relationship between real-life and cinematic discourse. Piazza analyses how fictional dialogue reinterprets authentic interaction in order to construe particular meanings. Beginning by exploring the relationship between discourse and genre, the second half of the book takes a topic-based approach and reflects on the themes of narrative and identity. The analysis carried out takes on board the multi-semiotic and multimodal components of film discourse. The book uses also uses concepts and methodologies from pragmatics, conversation analysis and discourse analysis. Advances in Stylistics provides student resources and research material in cutting-edge stylistics. It forgoes traditional boundaries to encompass the study of both literary and non-literary texts, and covers exciting new developments in the field. It takes a broad view of stylistics as the practice of using linguistic methodologies and analytical frameworks to facilitate the analysis of texts of all genres and types, for the purpose of explaining why we interpret texts in the way that we do. Books in the series address such topics as stylistic theory, discourse analysis, language and cognition, literary genre, corpus stylistics, the analysis of historical texts, pedagogical stylistics, multimodality and stylistic methodologies. The series further develops stylistic and linguistic theory, to demonstrate the application and value of stylistic tools of analysis and further consolidate stylistics as a major study and research area within language studies. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Roberta Piazza , Beatrix Busse , Szilvia Csabi , Monika FludernikPublisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation Imprint: Continuum Publishing Corporation ISBN: 9781441182579ISBN 10: 1441182578 Pages: 272 Publication Date: 16 December 2010 Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , General , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Electronic book text Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Not yet available  This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release. Table of Contents1. Background and Introduction; 2. The verbal-visual interrelation in cinema; 3. The focus on the representation of conflict in film; 4. Confrontational discourse in comedy and the disengagement of dramatic talk. 5. Spaghetti and American westerns: textual conflict marking the clash between opposing masculinities; 6. The struggle for narrative autonomy in Antonioni's When Love Fails; 7. The discourse of identity and confrontation in Mohsen Melliti's Me, the Other; 8. Conclusions; 9. References and filmography; Index.ReviewsAuthor InformationDr Roberta Piazza is a Lecturer in Linguistics and English Language at the University of Sussex, UK Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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