Watching TV with a linguist / edited by Kristy Beers Fägersten.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Beers Fägersten, Kristy, editor.

Series:

Television series (Syracuse, N.Y.)

Television and popular culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Television broadcasting--Language.

Television broadcasting.

Television series--United States.

Television series.

Dialogue analysis.

Conversation analysis.

Sociolinguistics.

United States.

Physical Description:

xiv, 389 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Syracuse : Syracuse University Press, 2016.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Electronic version: Watching TV with a linguist.

ISBN:

9780815634935

0815634935

9780815610816

0815610815

OCLC:

950448999