Overview
- Encompasses stylistic analysis of the House of Cards from the perspective of discourse and dialogue exchanges
- Considers the socio-cultural context in which the series was created and the specificities of the TV medium
- Exposes the strategies of interpersonal manipulation involving language use by key characters in the series
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This book is to date the first monograph-length study of the popular American political TV series House of Cards. It proposes an encompassing analysis of the first three seasons from the unusual angles of discourse and dialogue. The study of the stylistic idiosyncrasies of the ruthless main protagonist, Frank Underwood, is completed by a pragmatic and cognitive approach exposing the main characters’ manipulative strategies to win over the other. Taking into account the socio-cultural context and the specificities of the TV medium, the volume focuses on the workings of interaction as well as the impact of the direct address to the viewer. The book critically uses the latest theories in pragmatics and stylistics in its attempt at providing a pragma-rhetorical theory of manipulation.
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Sandrine Sorlin is Professor of English language and linguistics at Aix-Marseille University and specialises in stylistics and pragmatics. She is a member of the LERMA research team and a Fellow of the Institut Universitaire de France (IUF). She is also the current chair of the French society for English stylistics (Société de Stylistique Anglaise).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Language and Manipulation in House of Cards
Book Subtitle: A Pragma-Stylistic Perspective
Authors: Sandrine Sorlin
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-55848-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-55847-3Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-55848-0Published: 12 August 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 267
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 11 illustrations in colour
Topics: Cognitive Linguistics, Stylistics, Screen Studies, Arts, Pragmatics, Media Research