Our World: united via satellite [multi-national TV show]

This chapter examines Hollywood’s great rival, television, in a study of how television adapted the Broadway musical. Rather than looking at conventional stage-to-small-screen adaptations, however, the chapter focuses on how Carol Burnett’s TV show provided adaptations of another kind, that is, parodies of famous musicals. For example, the chapter explains how ‘Hold Me, Hamlet’ can be read as a parody/adaptation of Cole Porter’s Kiss Me, Kate, even retaining the doubling of the onstage/backstage musical format of the latter. Meanwhile, The Wiz is the clearest referent for ‘Cinderella Gets it On.’ These Burnett shows approach poesis because they take the form of the musical, and they often do comment upon it, but they are also genuine expressions of the form and the creators’ deep love and understanding of it.

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Becoming a Crorepati: From Glocal TV Game to Grobal Fiction

Asiatische Studien – Études Asiatiques ◽

10.1515/asia-2019-0053 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 73 (3) ◽

pp. 497-520

Author(s):

Nicola Pozza

Keyword(s):

Effective Means ◽

The Novel ◽

Cultural Products ◽

Slumdog Millionaire ◽

Interactive Nature ◽

Tv Show ◽

Shed Light ◽

The Way

AbstractNumerous studies have dealt with the process of globalization and its various cultural products. Three such cultural products illustrate this process: Vikas Swarup’s novel Q and A (2005), the TV quiz show Kaun banega crorepati? (Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?), and Danny Boyle’s film Slumdog Millionaire (2008). The novel, the TV show and the film have so far been studied separately. Juxtaposing and comparing Q and A, Kaun banega crorepati, and Slumdog Millionaire provides an effective means to shed light on the dialogic and interactive nature of the process of globalization. It is argued through this case study that an analysis of their place of production, language and content, helps clarify the derivative concepts of “glocalization” and “grobalization” with regard to the way(s) contemporary cultural products respond to globalization.

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The Pragmatic Functions of Repetition in TV Discourse

Research in Language ◽

10.2478/v10015-012-0004-x ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 10 (4) ◽

pp. 445-460 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Ghaleb Rabab'ah ◽

Ali Farhan AbuSeileek

Keyword(s):

Native Speakers ◽

Natural Phenomenon ◽

Esl Teachers ◽

Language Functions ◽

Pragmatic Analysis ◽

Native Speakers Of English ◽

Salient Features ◽

Esl Learners ◽

Tv Show ◽

Interactional Discourse

Since repetition is a natural phenomenon used to perform various functions in interactional discourse, adopting a pragmatic analysis to the discourse of Dr. Phil and his guests on Dr. Phil's TV show, this study attempted to explore the pragmatic functions of such repetitions as used by English native speakers. The data were gathered from conversations between native speakers of English, and based on 7 full episodes of Dr. Phil's TV Show. The researchers watched, and studied these episodes on YouTube. The study revealed that one of the salient features of TV discourse is repetition, which is employed to perform a variety of language functions. Repetition was used to express emphasis, clarity, emotions, highlight the obvious, be questionable, express annoyance, persuasion, express surprise, give instructions, and as a filler in order to take time, when the speaker was searching for a proper word to say what would come next. The study concluded that these findings had significant implications for EFL/ESL teachers and the interlanguage development of EFL/ESL learners.

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