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10 - Realising Betrayal

A Multimodal Stylistic Analysis of a Scene from the TV Series The Sopranos

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2023

By
Simon Statham
Edited by
John Douthwaite  and
Ulrike Tabbert
John Douthwaite
Affiliation:
Università degli Studi di Genova
Ulrike Tabbert
Affiliation:
University of Huddersfield
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Summary

Statham analyses dialogue in a sequence from the TV series The Sopranos. He illustrates the complexity of communication by analysing how textual features work together with camera perspective, shot, gaze and action to orchestrate a character’s realisation of betrayal.

Keywords

MultimodalityThe Sopranosconversational maximsparticipation frameworkpoint of view
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The Linguistics of Crime , pp. 194 - 213
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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