Christian Hoffmann is Senior Lecturer at the University of Augsburg, Germany. Monika Kirner-Ludwig is Assistant Professor at the University of Innsbruck, Austria
Featuring rigorous stylistic analysis of a range of text-types – TV shows (including soap operas, documentaries, sitcoms and dramas), films, trailers and multimodal adaptations – this book demonstrates the increasing prevalence and importance of stylistic attention to telecinematic discourse. * Alison Gibbons, Reader in Contemporary Stylistics, Sheffield Hallam University, UK * Telecinematic Stylistics draws together a number of innovative studies to explore central themes and style choices in narratives from both film and screen. The chapters consider a range of telecinematic texts (from horror films to trailers and captions) through an equally comprehensive range of theoretical approaches (from corpus methods to cognitive pragmatics). These exemplary analyses successfully demonstrate the breadth of methodologies and topics within this exciting new field of research, and highlight how telecinematic discourse – in all its various contexts – can be examined rigorously and meaningfully through a stylistic perspective. * Chloe Harrison, Lecturer in English Language and Literature, Aston University, UK * Telecinematic Stylistics provides its readers with a rich repertoire of locutionary (and visual) patterns observed in a wide variety of telecinematic products (including several understudied ones) ... The vast array of topics and methodological approaches [are] of interest not only to scholars interested in pragmatics, stylistics and their intersections, but also to those active in the fields of media linguistics and discourse analysis at large. * Journal of Pragmatics *