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Movie Language Revisited - Evidence from Multi-Dimensional Analysis and Corpora (Paperback, New edition) Loot Price: R1,070
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Movie Language Revisited - Evidence from Multi-Dimensional Analysis and Corpora (Paperback, New edition): Pierfranca Forchini

Movie Language Revisited - Evidence from Multi-Dimensional Analysis and Corpora (Paperback, New edition)

Pierfranca Forchini

Series: Lingue e Culture / Languages and Cultures / Langues Et Cultures, 1

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This book explores the linguistic nature of American movie conversation, pointing out its resemblances to face-to-face conversation. The reason for such an investigation lies in the fact that movie language is traditionally considered to be non-representative of spontaneous language. The book presents a corpus-driven study of the similarities between face-to-face and movie conversation, using detailed consideration of individual lexical phrases and linguistic features as well as Biber's Multi-Dimensional Analysis (1998). The data from an existing spoken American English corpus - the Longman Spoken American Corpus - is compared to the American Movie Corpus, a corpus of American movie conversation purposely built for the research. On the basis of evidence from these corpora, the book shows that contemporary movie conversation does not differ significantly from face-to-face conversation, and can therefore be legitimately used to study and teach natural spoken language.

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Imprint: Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Country of origin: Switzerland
Series: Lingue e Culture / Languages and Cultures / Langues Et Cultures, 1
Release date: December 2011
First published: 2012
Authors: Pierfranca Forchini
Dimensions: 225 x 155 x 10mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 142
Edition: New edition
ISBN-13: 978-3-03-431076-5
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > The arts: general issues > General
Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > General
Books > Language & Literature > Literary & linguistic reference works > General
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900
Books > Language & Literature > Language teaching & learning (other than ELT) > Specific skills > Speaking / pronunciation skills > General
LSN: 3-03-431076-5
Barcode: 9783034310765

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