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- 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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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Authors and Affiliations
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Aix Marseille univ, LERMA, Aix-en-Provence Institut Universitaire de France, Aix-en-Provence, France
Sandrine Sorlin
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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