focussedness

The arrows on Table 15 show the problems faced by the old technology companies in determining which strategic moves they should follow. Should they target movement to a manufacturing grouping, a technology grouping or define a new grouping based on cooperation and focussedness of skills?

1985 May, John McGee, Howard Thomas, “The Notion of a ‘Rich’ Industry Study: The Example of Office Reprographics”, in Making Sense of Complex Industries (BEBR Faculty Working Paper No. 1149), [Urbana, Ill.]: College of Commerce and Business Administration, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, →OCLC, pages 41–42

The key reason for this is the priority accorded, by those devising this dialogue, to the overarching narrativity of the construct: the talk’s role in telling a story, in reporting individuals experiencing change. This, more than the fictionality, artistic status, or (normally) prior existence in writing of the product seems to be responsible for the succint focussedness of most dialogue in film narratives.

2011, Michael Toolan, “‘I don’t know what they’re saying half the time, but I’m hooked on the series’: Incomprehensible dialogue and integrated multimodal characterisation in The Wire”, in Roberta Piazza, Monika Bednarek, Fabio Rossi, editors, Telecinematic Discourse: Approaches to the Language of Films and Television Series (Pragmatics & Beyond New Series; 211), Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, →ISSN, part II (Televisual discourse), pages 162–163