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Direct linkMitch Olson; Chris C. Palmer – Across the Disciplines, 2024
This article explores academic and industry perspectives on the use of dialect, slang, and historical language in screenwriting. It offers a chronological overview of major screenwriting manuals' treatment of dialect and slang (or lack thereof) 1946-2020. It then presents survey data of 53 currently-practicing screenwriters' views on working with…
Descriptors: Film Study, Scripts, Writing (Composition), Dialects
López-Garcia, Verònica; Rodríguez-Inés, Patricia – Interpreter and Translator Trainer, 2019
Recurring expressions and idiolectal speech patterns are often used by the scriptwriters of sitcoms to portray the personality of some of the characters. These expressions, which in many cases end up becoming popular, are so significant that they need be kept in the translated versions of these series. A corpus-based script analysis method that…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Translation, Units of Study, Teaching Methods
