Television Dialogue: The Sitcom Friends vs. Natural Conversation

by Paulo Quaglio

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...

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