The Linguistic Contrast Between Screenplays and Novels
Description
Screenplays and novels are similar in that they both tell a story. However, the two are not the same. Screenplays and novels have a significantly different function and purpose from one another. With that being said, this thesis conducts a register analysis to discover the prominent linguistic differences in each register. Overall, this study finds that novels and screenplays do in fact have linguistic features that differ from one another. The linguistic features distinctive to a screenplay are: shorter sentences, more non-standard sentences, and more nouns. Longer sentences, independent clause coordination constituents, phrasal constituents, and reduced predicate adjective phrases are the linguistic features present in the novel.
Date Created
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2022
Agent
- Author (aut): Luna, Elaina
- Thesis advisor (ths): Van Gelderen, Elly
- Committee member: James, Mark
- Committee member: Long, Elenore
- Publisher (pbl): Arizona State University