20.500.12556/RUL-181932 "Uh, I'm a pretty sick guy" the dialogue of American Psycho in fiction and film This paper examines how dialogue in Bret Easton Ellis's novel American Psycho (1991) serves to project the identity of its controversial protagonist Patrick Bateman. A com- parison with the dialogue in Mary Harron's film adaptation (2000) further highlights the importance of dialogue for characterisation by analysing how changes in Bateman's conversational behaviour on screen result in a different interpretation of the character. A pragmastylistic analysis reveals that dialogues are characterised by a strong discrepancy between their form and their content. While Conversation Analysis exposes few irregu- larities in the turn-taking structure of the dialogues, a Gricean pragmatic analysis con- f irms the impression that the content of the dialogues is often vapid – the participants fail to establish a meaningful connection with one another through a cooperative exchange of information. Bateman tries to disrupt the vapid interaction by confessing ever more openly to his killing sprees in a desperate attempt to establish some genuine contact. However, as the dialogues maintain the semblance of conversation, his shocking con- fessions go completely unnoticed. A scene-based analysis of the film, complete with a multimodal transcript, provides an insight into how the reduction of Bateman's deviances significantly alters his characterisation. characterisation screen adaptation conversation analysis cooperative principle criminal mind telecinematic stylistics Bret Easton Ellis American Psycho karakterizacija filmska priredba analiza pogovora sodelovalno načelo zločinski um tele-kinematografska stilistika Bret Easton Ellis American Psycho true false true Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik Članek v reviji 2026-04-20 11:55:19 2026-04-20 11:55:26 2026-09-10 16:07:55 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2025 0 0 Str. 1-18 Vol. 245 Aug. 2025 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova Objavljeno NiDoloceno 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 81'38:[821.111(73).09-31:791.221.6] 0378-2166 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.05.007 239277315 RAZ_Celhar_Aja_2025.pdf RAZ_Celhar_Aja_2025.pdf 1 856FD82BF790D8F7673B59822A4DC9AC f60838d1014a906192db08ff8cd5479a7f109dda2f5a7131f9d50a643a0ad953 12d138a8-3c9f-11f1-b0ab-0050569b8976 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=232734 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378216625001201 0 d1f0bc07-3c9e-11f1-b0ab-0050569b8976 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=232732 Filozofska fakulteta 0 0 0