ISBN:
0815634935
,
9780815634935
,
9780815610816
Language:
English
Pages:
xiv, 389 Seiten
,
Illustrationen, Diagramme
Edition:
First edition
Series Statement:
Television and popular culture
Parallel Title:
Online version Watching TV with a linguist
DDC:
302.23/45
Keywords:
Television broadcasting Language
;
Television series
;
Dialogue analysis
;
Conversation analysis
;
Sociolinguistics
;
Englisch
;
Fernsehsendung
Abstract:
Introduction: The linguist's view of television / Kristy Beers Fägersten -- Watching the detective: Sherlock and spoken television discourse / Kay Richardson -- Dealers and discourse: sociolinguistic variation in The wire / Joe Trotta -- "Back in St. Olaf...": regional variation in The Golden Girls / Jean Ann -- SaMANtha: language and gender in Sex and the city / Kristy Beers Fägersten and Hanna Sveen -- The pragmatics explication: making sense of nerds in The big bang theory / Matthias Eitelmann and Ulrike Stange -- Cunning linguistics: the semantics of word play in South Park / Michael Percillier -- Word formation in HIMYM / Jessie Sams -- What's the deal with morphemes? doing morphology with Seinfeld / Kristy Beers Fägersten -- Channel surfing: tuning into the sounds of English / Kristy Beers Fägersten -- Syntax in Seattle / Güliat Aygen -- I'm learneding! first language acquisition in The Simpsons / Kristy Beers Fägersten -- Lost and language found / Kristy Beers Fägersten and Ilaria Fiorentini -- The one based on 738,032 words: language use in the Friends-corpus / Paulo Quaglio -- Appendix A: WMatrix grammatical tags -- Appendix B: WMatrix semantic tags -- Glossary -- Contributors
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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