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Movie Language Revisited: Evidence from Multi-Dimensional Analysis and Corpora

Movie Language Revisited: Evidence from Multi-Dimensional Analysis and Corpora

Forchini, Pierfranca
Gobber, Giovanni
Verna, Marisa

Paperback

Series: Lingue E Culture / Languages and Cultures / Langues Et Cultu, Book 1

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ISBN10: 3034310765
ISBN13: 9783034310765
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: Dec 20 2011
Pages: 142
Weight: 0.44
Height: 0.31 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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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