Essays about: "television dialogue"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 9 essays containing the words television dialogue.

1. 1. Public Service Broadcasting in the digital media age : How streaming services reshape the role of Greek public network ERT from state to public service broadcaster?

   University essay from KTH/Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS)

   Author : Emmanouil Evangelos Katsoulakis; [2022]
   Keywords : Public Service Broadcasting; television; streaming services; ERT; Public Service Media; State Broadcasting; Public Service Broadcasting; TV; streamingtjänster; ERT; Public Service Media; statliga sändningar.;

   Abstract : Media are created to disseminate information and foster dialogue to support democratic societies. As society evolved and liberalism and marketization gained ground, Public Service Broadcasting was established to produce and distribute content that benefits society without aiming for profit. READ MORE

3. 2. Lost in Translation : Voice-over Translated TV as a Source for Incidental Language Acquisition

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

   Author : Anna Justyna Sochacka; [2020]
   Keywords : Second language acquisition; audio-visual translation; voice-over translation; lektor; subtitles; incidental language acquisition; L2; Polish learners of English;

   Abstract : Voice-over translation (or “audio subtitles”) is the only audio-visual translation (AVT) used for feature-length films on Polish television. Since the reader (lektor) only partially overrides original dialogues and some parts of the actors’ speech are clearly audible, it can be considered as marginal L2 exposure. READ MORE

4. 3. “There’s More to Life ThanSitting There SimplyInterfacing” : David Foster Wallace and his Reader in a Literature afterPostmodernism

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för kultur och estetik

   Author : Andrea Minucci; [2018]
   Keywords : David; Foster; Wallace; Postmodernism; Literature; Infinite; Jest; Death of the Author; media studies; image-fiction; intermediality; transmediality; narrative; theory; narratology; heteroglossia; ekphrasis;

   Abstract : David Foster Wallace felt that literature was at a historical crossroad, and thatpostmodernism had passed the point which it could still be considered a'revolutionary' cultural phenomenon. He felt that the capitalistic machinery of TVand advertisement had absorbed the postmodernist techniques of pastiche,deconstruction and rejection of a distinction between high and low culturalmodels, to a point where there was no longer a difference between reality and itsown representation. READ MORE

5. 4. Audience Engagement with Complex TV dramas : Posthuman Narratives and Human Identity

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap

   Author : Salome Kobalava; [2017]
   Keywords : Complex Television Drama; Audiences; Posthumanism; Narrative; Identity; Subjectivity; Artificial Intelligence; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Through qualitative interviews with ten study participants, this research investigates connections between the theme of artificial intelligence on HBO’s Westworld, and issues of identities of its audience members. The thesis critically examines audience engagement with complex television dramas. READ MORE

6. 5. Hedges, Boosters and Tag Questions in The Big Bang Theory: A Gender Perspective

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

   Author : Kristina Pettersson Granqvist; [2014-02-21]
   Keywords : engelska; Hedges; boosters; Tag questions; TV discourse; gender-related differences; gender; sociolinguistics; media; gender variations; television dialogue;

   Abstract : The aim of the present study is to investigate the overall frequency of hedges, boosters and tag questions in a selected number of episodes of the TV show The Big Bang Theory, and whether or not there are any gender related differences. Some previous research into this field of sociolinguistics has shown that women tend to use these forms more frequently than men, albeit the majority of this research has been in other discourses than the present one, while some has shown no gender variation concerning frequency. READ MORE