Television Dialogue: The Sitcom Friends vs. Natural Conversation

by Paulo Quaglio

Explores a fresh research area: television dialogue. This title reports on a study comparing the language of the American situation comedy "Friends" to natural conversation. It is illustrated with numerous dialogue extracts from "Friends" and conversation, topics such as vague, emotional, and informal language are discussed.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9027223165
• ISBN13: 9789027223166
• Release Date: February 2009
• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Length: 165 Pages