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Television dialogue : the sitcom Friends vs. natural conversation /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
©2009.
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| Colección: | Studies in corpus linguistics ;
v. 36. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 Grammar Corpus provide the data for this corpus-based investigation, which combines Douglas Biber's multidimensional methodology with a frequency-based analysis of close to 100 linguistic features. As a natural offshoot of the research design, this study offers a comprehensive description of the mos. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 161 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-155) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9789027290441 902729044X 1282104993 9781282104990 9786612104992 6612104996 |
| ISSN: | 1388-0373 ; |