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Roberta Piazza
Researcher at University of Sussex
Publications - 31
Citations - 267
Roberta Piazza is an academic researcher from University of Sussex. The author has contributed to research in topics: Narrative & Irish. The author has an hindex of 7, co-authored 28 publications receiving 231 citations. Previous affiliations of Roberta Piazza include University of Palermo.
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Telecinematic discourse : approaches to the language of films and television series
TL;DR: Piazza and Roberta as discussed by the authors analyse telecinematic discourse of film dialogues and show that it can be classified into two categories: pragmatic non-realism and linguistic realism.
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With and without Zanzibar: liminal diaspora voices and the memory of the revolution
TL;DR: De Fina et al. as discussed by the authors explored discursive narratives as inextricably linked to the construction of identity, place and history by a number of interviewed individuals, for whom the relationship with the island and its history is crucial to their construction of selfhood.
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The representation of conflict in the discourse of Italian melodrama
TL;DR: In this article, an extensive study of cinematic dialogue in a variety of film genres in Italian is presented, which aims to address the disregard for the verbal plane that characterises film theory and particularly genre theory.
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Voice-over and self-narrative in film: A multimodal analysis of Antonioni’s When Love Fails (Tentato Suicidio)
TL;DR: The authors take into consideration cinema's complex message resulting from the combination of the verbal and visual codes, and take into account the complex message of the dialogues in film discourse. But they do not consider the relationship between visual and verbal codes.
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The pragmatics of conducive questions in academic discourse
TL;DR: In this article, a prior model for the analysis of conducive questions is proposed, which hinges on the concept of the polarity that exists between a questioner's old belief underlying the question, the new assumption s/he formulates in his/her mind, the expected answer and the formal aspect of the question itself.