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.
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