1st Edition

The Language of Television

By Jill Marshall, Angela Werndly Copyright 2002
128 Pages
by Routledge

128 Pages
by Routledge

The Intertext series has been specifically designed to meet the needs of contemporary English Language Studies. Working with Texts: A Core Introduction to Language Analysis (2nd edn 2000) is the foundation text, which is complemented by a range of 'satellite' titles. These provide students with hands-on practical experience of textual analysis through special topics and can be used... Read more

Unit one: What is television? The history of British television; Aspects of production, texts and audiences; The textual landscape of television; Television as a domestic medium; Television as ‘storyteller’ Unit two: Signs and signification Unit three: Forms of television Unit four: ‘Live’ talk Unit five: Represented talk Unit six: Discourse and television texts

Biography

Jill Marshall is Lecturer at Queen Margaret University College, Edinburgh. Angela Werndly is Lecturer at the University of Sunderland.