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Title Dialogue across media / edited by Jarmila Mildorf, Bronwen Thomas
Published Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2017]

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Series Dialogue studies, 1875-1792 ; volume 28
Dialogue studies ; v. 28.
Contents Dialogue across Media; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; List of Contributors; Introduction; What is Dialogue?; Dialogue and Media; How can we study dialogue? Methodological issues; Chapter outlines; Closing remarks; Refernces; Part I. Creating Characters through Dialogue; Pragmatics and dramatic dialogue; Introduction; Directive speech acts: Resisting Ben's authority; Informative speech acts: Whose reality gets to be 'Real'?; Besting Ben in longer transactions: The Kettle scene; Besting Ben: Additional scenes; Discussion and conclusion; References
Dialogue and character in 21st century TV dramaIntroduction; Using dialogue in drama; Functions of dialogue in TV drama; Scripting, casting and acting character; Introducing Sherlock Holmes; Extraordinary Sherlock; Autistic Sherlock; Detective Sherlock; Maintaining Sherlock Holmes; Sherlock Breaks Out?; Discussion; References; Look who's talking; Introduction; Eric Berne and the birth of transactional analysis; Characters and caricatures; Communication -- Fleshing out the detail; Stimulus; Response; Ulterior transactions; Rules of communication; Conclusion; References; All Talk; Introduction
Approaches to film dialogueParatexts and production; Intertexts and genre; Simulating talk; Interacting for real; Conclusion; References; Part II. Involvement, audience design andsocial interaction; Studying everyday conversation; Introduction; Some basic assumptions and principles; Doing Conversation Analysis: The Case of News Announcements and News Receipts; Some Basic Features of Informings and their Responses; A close analysis of a single extract; Discussion: What Does CA Have to Offer?; References; Appendix; Dialogic interactions on radio; Introduction; The literary interview
The interactional nature of literary radio interviewsVoices, music, quotation: Multimodality in radio interviews; Human interest stories: Catering to a perceived audience; Conclusion; References; Dialogism in journalistic discourse; Introduction; Dialogue and dialogism; Dialogism in journalism; News values and newsworthiness; A discourse stylistic analysis of McEwan's "Savagely awoken"; Novelistic style and narrative structure; Rhetorical questions; Pronoun use: Not "I" but "We"; Dialogue, dialogism and intertextuality; Objectivity and stance; Conclusion; References; Appendix
Friends and Followers 'in the Know'Introduction; Small Stories Research as a Narrative Interactional Paradigm for Social Media; Data and Methods; Analyzing Interaction in Small Stories Research; Projecting Knowing Participation; Positioning Self as Knowing Participant; 'Friends' in the Know; Doing Knowing Participation on YouTube; Conclusions; References; Dialogue with computers; Introduction; Talking machines in fiction: Hal, Ava and Baymax; Dialogue Games; Reactive dialogue systems; Eliza's Game; Beyond Eliza; Coda: Automatic harvesting of generation rules; Agenda-driven systems
Summary With chapters on social media, videogames and human-machine communication, 'Dialogue across Media' provides a comprehensive overview of the role of dialogue in contemporary media. Drawing on the expertise of scholars and practitioners from multiple fields and disciplines, including screenwriters, literary critics, linguists and new media theorists, each chapter provides an in-depth analysis of dialogue in action. Together, these chapters demonstrate the unique energy and versatility that dialogic forms can offer artists and readers alike, and the special role that dialogue plays in helping us to understand the complexities and contradictions of human interaction. 'Dialogue across Media' provides an essential resource for students and specialists in many fields concerned with dialogue, including language and literature, media and cultural studies, narratology and rhetoric
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Dialogue -- Social aspects
Mass media and culture.
Mass media -- Social aspects.
Popular culture -- Social aspects
Communication -- Social aspects.
Sociolinguistics.
sociolinguistics.
PSYCHOLOGY -- Social Psychology.
Communication -- Social aspects
Mass media and culture
Mass media -- Social aspects
Popular culture -- Social aspects
Sociolinguistics
Form Electronic book
Author Mildorf, Jarmila, editor
Thomas, Bronwen, editor
LC no. 2016055107
ISBN 9789027266156
9027266158
9027210454
9789027210456