Roberta Piazza

List of John Benjamins publications for which Roberta Piazza plays a role.

Title

Telecinematic Discourse: Approaches to the language of films and television series

Edited by Roberta Piazza, Monika Bednarek and Fabio Rossi

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 211] 2011. xi, 315 pp.
Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
This paper explores discursive narratives as inextricably linked to the construction of identity, place and history by a number of interviewed individuals. From an interactional sociolinguistics (cf. De Fina & Georgakopoulou, 2012) perspective, the study explores the context of the East African… read more
Piazza, Roberta and Melanie Green 2015 Argumentation in discourse and grammarHandbook of Pragmatics: 2015 Installment, Östman, Jan-Ola and Jef Verschueren (eds.) | Article
In horror films the link between words and images is the key to the relationship between the “represented” and “interactive” participants, as the film characters and viewers respectively (Kress and van Leeuwen 1996). This paper claims that, like crime novels (Gregoriou 2007), horror films are… read more
Piazza, Roberta, Monika Bednarek and Fabio Rossi 2011 Chapter 1. Introduction: Analysing telecinematic discourseTelecinematic Discourse: Approaches to the language of films and television series, Piazza, Roberta, Monika Bednarek and Fabio Rossi (eds.), pp. 1–17 | Introduction