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Direct linkDesilla, Louisa – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2019
This article examines the construal, cross-cultural relay and comprehension of misunderstandings by filmmakers, translators and audiences respectively of "Bridget Jones's Diary" (2001) and "Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason" (2004). It reports on findings of a case-study on implicatures in these two romantic comedies (Desilla…
Descriptors: Films, Translation, Second Languages, Intercultural Communication
Tsiplakou, Stavroula; Ioannidou, Elena – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2012
This paper examines language stylization in "Aigia Fuxia" ("The Fuchsia Goat"), a highly popular Greek Cypriot sitcom, where the (imagined) linguistic and socio-cultural "self" of a dialect-speaking community is subjected to extreme and aberrant stylization. The overarching filmic and generic trademark of "Aigia…
Descriptors: Language Styles, Television, Programming (Broadcast), Greek
