Telecinematic Stylistics

Over the last two decades, the study of discourse in film and television has become one of the most promising research avenues in stylistics and pragmatics due to the dazzling variety of source material and the huge pragmatic range within it. Meanwhile, with the advent of streaming and the box set, film and television themselves are becoming separated by an increasingly blurred line.

This volume closes a long-standing gap in stylistics research, bringing together a book-level pragmastylistic...