10. Multilingualism in fiction

Locher, Miriam A.

doi:10.1515/9783110431094-010

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“…The use of such features means that viewers can easily and quickly assess and categorise characters based on preconceived expectations (Lippi-Green, 1997: 81; Queen, 2015: 165). This also aligns film and television dialogue with the portrayal of ethnic identity in other types of fiction (Locher and Jucker, 2021: 104). The participation framework of telecinematic discourse – the fact that the dialogue is ultimately designed for a ratified, overhearing target audience – helps to explain this general tendency (Bednarek, 2018: 25).…”

Section: Australian Aboriginal English(es)mentioning

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Functions of dialogue in (television) drama: A case study of Indigenous-authored television narratives

Bednarek

Syron

2022

Language and Literature: International Journal of Stylistics

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While stylistics has successfully integrated the study of language use in film and television, relatively little research has tried to systematically classify the functions of television or film dialogue – i.e. to taxonomise its range of potential stylistic functions such as characterisation or the creation of consistency. Most stylistic research has also focussed on traditional US (Hollywood) or European narrative mass media, rather than culturally-diverse or Indigenous-authored film and television. This article aims to make a contribution to both of these under-examined fields by offering a case study of the stylistic functions of Australian Aboriginal English lexis in three successful Indigenous-authored television series. The three series ( Redfern Now, Cleverman and Mystery Road) are all important for the television canon and were broadcast in Australia as well as exported internationally. Using an existing corpus with dialogue from these series as repository, this article illustrates the different functions of Australian Aboriginal English lexis in its surrounding text by critically examining multiple dialogue extracts from the three narratives. Quotations from Indigenous screen creatives are interwoven with the analysis where relevant. We argue that such lexis fulfils many functions beyond characterisation and demonstrate the significance of communicating culture and identity in Indigenous-authored drama. The study has implications both for the stylistic analysis of the multiple functions of television/film dialogue and for the study of narratives that feature significant creative involvement by marginalised, subjugated, colonised, or otherwise historically excluded communities – including but not limited to Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait islander people(s) in Australia.

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Section: Australian Aboriginal English(es)mentioning

confidence: 69%

Functions of dialogue in (television) drama: A case study of Indigenous-authored television narratives

Bednarek

Syron

2022

Language and Literature: International Journal of Stylistics

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“…While social variables such as age, gender and ethnicity might be treated more liberally in some instances, language is given a particular importance within characterisation for the stage and film in some cases. This can be seen in the considerable effort that is invested in some projects for actors to be able to explore the power of linguistic indexicalities by engaging voice coaches to teach accents and dialect/sociolect variation, different languages being included or entirely new languages being invented (see Bleichenbacher 2008;Locher 2017). However, there are also counter-examples where linguistic variability is levelled and multilingual situations are glossed over.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…For the discussion of including French accent, see Planchenault's work (e.g., 2017). For the inclusion of multilingualism in fiction, seeLocher (2017).…”

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Fiction and Pragmatics

Locher

Jucker²,

Landert³

et al. 2023

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This Element outlines current issues in the study of the pragmatics of fiction. It starts from the premise that fictional texts are complex and multi-layered communicative acts which deserve attention in pragmatic research in their own right, and it highlights the need to understand them as cultural artefacts rich in possibilities to explore pragmatic effects and pragmatic theorising. The issues covered are (1) the participation structure of fictional texts, (2) the performance aspect of fictional texts, (3) the interaction between readers and viewers and the fictional texts, as well as (4) the pragmatic effects of drawing on indexical linguistic features for evoking ideologies in characterisation. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

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“…Such nuances also exist in Korean. However, such refined indexicals are culture-bound and do not travel well from one language to another (see, e.g., Locher, 2017;Planchenault, 2017;Ramos Pinto, 2018). This is because the features carry different levels of prestige, and negative connotations are often associated with substandard varieties.…”

Section: Challenges For Translation Of Korean Relational Work Indexicalsmentioning

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Pragmatics in Translation

Dayter

Locher²,

Messerli³

2023

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This Element addresses translation issues within an interpersonal pragmatics frame. The aims of this Element are twofold: first, we survey the current state of the field of pragmatics in translation; second, we present the current and methodologically innovative avenues of research in the field. We focus on three pragmatics issues – relational work, participation structure, and mediality – that we foreground as promising loci of research on translational data. By reviewing the trajectory of pragmatics research on translation/interpreting over time, and then outlining our understanding of the Pragmatics in Translation as a field, we arrive at a set of potential research questions which represent desiderata for future research. These questions identify the paths that can be productively explored through synergies of the linguistic pragmatics framework and translation data. In two case study chapters, we offer two example studies addressing some of the questions we identified as suggestions for future research. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

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10. Multilingualism in fiction

Cited by 12 publications

References 35 publications

Functions of dialogue in (television) drama: A case study of Indigenous-authored television narratives

Functions of dialogue in (television) drama: A case study of Indigenous-authored television narratives

Fiction and Pragmatics

Pragmatics in Translation

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