Publications
Publication details [#44054]
Piazza, Roberta. 2006. The representation of conflict in the discourse of Italian melodrama. Journal of Pragmatics 38 (12) : 2087–2104. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Elsevier
Journal WWW
Annotation
This study uses a pragmatic and functional semantic approach to examine confrontational talk and the disregard for the verbal plane in Italian melodramatic films from the early 1960s up to the present.