‘Going into a nosedive’. Re-languaging the other via the Speech Act Theory in Black Mirror

Black Mirror, the British speculative anthology TV series created by Charlie Brooker in 2011, can be considered one of the most interesting mass-culture products of recent years. It revolves around the evolution of pervasive technology in the framework of the digitalization of relationships, investigating the ties between humans and technology, the latter often threatenings to progress so quickly that our ethical frameworks do not have the chance to catch up. The aim of the paper is to investigate how spoken discourse and speech acts are represented, used and performed in Nosedive one of the most discussed episodes of the TV Se- ries3. More specifically, it will look at how speech events are framed within the episode in representing and languaging the other and what social effects this produces.