Analysing cinematic discourse using conversation analysis

The following paper examines how a conversation analysis (CA) approach to the investigation of spoken dialogue can be applied to analysis of the verbal and non-verbal (prosodic and paralinguistic) features of film discourse. In doing so, we wish to make a valuable contribution to the debate in the field between ‘pure’ (see Schegloff, 1988; Emmison, 1993) and ‘applied’ CA scholars (e.g. ten Have, 2007). Researchers belonging to the former...