Television dialogue : the sitcom Friends vs. natural conversation / Paulo Quaglio.

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Quaglio, Paulo
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2009.
Series:Studies in corpus linguistics ; v. 36.
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Table of Contents:
  • Television Dialogue; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; List of tables; List of figures; Foreword to the book; Opening credits; Setting the stage; Behind the scenes; Take 1; Some you know I mean it's really urgh; I am just really really happy ... ; I'm just hanging out. Y'know, having fun; Once upon a time; That's a wrap; References; Appendix; Name index; Subject index; The series Studies in Corpus Linguistics (SCL).