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