Explores contemporary US television dialogue - the on-screen language that viewers worldwide encounter as they watch popular television series.

With cases studies used throughout to help illustrate the more general points, this is an analysis of the most important characteristics of television dialogue,

This book explores how language is used to create characters in fictional television series. To do so, it draws on multiple case studies from the United States

This cutting-edge collection of articles provides the first organised reflection on the language of films and television series across British, American and Ita

In Watching TV with a Linguist, Fägersten challenges the conventional view of television as lowbrow entertainment devoid of intellectual activity. Rather, she