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Interactional Approach to Cinematic Discourse

How Do Woody Allen’s Characters Talk?

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Authors:
  1. Neda Chepinchikj

    1. UNSW Sydney, Sydney, Australia

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  • Approaches cinematic discourse from a multimodal conversation analytic point of view
  • Focuses on the linguistic and interactional aspects of Woody Allen's films, an under-studied aspect of his work
  • Offers a linguistic case study of an auteur’s cinematic discourse, including verbal and non-verbal resources

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Introduction

    • Neda Chepinchikj
    Pages 1-5

  3. Woody Allen’s Cinematic Discourse

    • Neda Chepinchikj
    Pages 7-33

  4. Analytical Approach

    • Neda Chepinchikj
    Pages 35-56

  5. Organisation of Interaction

    • Neda Chepinchikj
    Pages 57-94

  6. Verbal Features of Interaction

    • Neda Chepinchikj
    Pages 95-133

  7. Embodied Features of Interaction: Gaze

    • Neda Chepinchikj
    Pages 135-186

  8. Embodied Features of Interaction: Gestures

    • Neda Chepinchikj
    Pages 187-211

  9. Social Actions and Gender Considerations

    • Neda Chepinchikj
    Pages 213-241

  10. Conclusion

    • Neda Chepinchikj
    Pages 243-250

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 251-273
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About this book

This book analyses and describes a segment of Woody Allen’s cinematic discourse, focusing specifically on the performed (or diegetic) interactions between actors in various roles in some of his films. It is a case study of Woody Allen's cinematic discourse, encompassing the on-screen, performed interaction in the films at the level of the story-world. The analysis focuses on speech (film dialogues), in both its verbal and prosodic forms, as well as non-verbal types of interaction including gaze and gesture, taking a social interactional approach and using multimodal conversation analysis as a theoretical framework and analytical tool. The 'texts' under study are segments from five films by Woody Allen, and the analysed interactions take place between male and female interactants, which allows further examination of on-screen interactions via a gender lens. The book aims to bridge the gap between the disciplines of applied linguistics and cinema studies andoffer linguistic insights into performed interactions from a multimodal point of view. It will be equally relevant to linguists who are interested in how verbal and non-verbal language is used in cinematic discourse, as well as to film workers, especially actors, directors and screenwriters.

Reviews

“Written in an engaging and lucid style, the book offers an insightful, up-to-date analysis of scripted conversation in cinematic discourse. The author convincingly shows how fictional figures construct the narrative, paying attention to embodied nuances of the characters’ on-screen interactions. The book will be much appreciated by all scholars and students working in the socio-interactional paradigm and will also be welcome by those with an interest in stylistics, conversation analysis and multimodal studies.” (Jan Chovanec, Professor of English Linguistics, Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic)

“This book might best be advertised as a linguistic voice in the discussion of "Everything you always wanted to know about Woody Allen's films but were afraid to ask". Deconstructing the selected scenes through the lens of interactional linguistics and multimodal conversation analysis, Neda Chepinchikj offers her contribution to the methodology of research on cinematic discourse.” (Prof. dr hab. Marta Dynel, Institute of English Studies, Univeristy of Lodz, Poland)

Authors and Affiliations

  • UNSW Sydney, Sydney, Australia

    Neda Chepinchikj

About the author

Neda Chepinchikj is a linguist working at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, Australia. She holds a PhD in applied linguistics, educational linguistics and screen and media culture from the University of Melbourne. This is her first book, which is based on her PhD thesis.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Interactional Approach to Cinematic Discourse

  • Book Subtitle: How Do Woody Allen’s Characters Talk?

  • Authors: Neda Chepinchikj

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-00945-7

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-00944-0Published: 20 July 2022

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-00947-1Published: 21 July 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-00945-7Published: 19 July 2022

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 273

  • Number of Illustrations: 113 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Applied Linguistics, Screen Studies, Social Sciences, general, Screen Performance

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