Abstract:The paper falls in the area of discourse analysis and presents an initial framework for research into the nature of audio-visual text, namely the discourse of fi lm dialogue. This preliminary exploration should serve the purpose of fi nding areas worth further examination. The corpus to be studied is an episode from Friends (2002/2003). The utilized method is a SWOT analysis (an analysis in terms of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats) within which specifi c features are indicated and observed. I… Show more
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