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

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

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 book offers a comprehensive linguistic analysis of contemporary US television series. Adopting an interdisciplinary and multimethodological approach, Monik

Provides a comprehensive and unique examination of global language learning outside of the formal school setting Authored by a prominent team of international e