Article published in:
Corpus approaches to telecinematic languageEdited by Monika Bednarek, Valentin Werner and Marcia Veirano Pinto
[International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 26:1] 2021
► pp. 127–160
A linguistic typology of American television
Tony Berber Sardinha | São Paulo Catholic University
Marcia Veirano Pinto | São Paulo Federal University
This paper presents the first entirely linguistic typology of contemporary American television, derived from a
multi-dimensional (MD) analysis of the USTV corpus. The USTV corpus comprises 930 texts from 191 different TV programs, classified into 31
different registers (including nine telecinematic ones: drama series, miniseries, movies, sitcoms, soap operas, general animation,
children’s animation, short-feature animation, and children’s and teens’ shows). The linguistic typology we present in this study is based
on the linguistic characteristics present in the individual programs, with no a priori textual categorizations. A cluster
analysis grouped the individual programs into clusters that shared similar dimensional profiles. The resulting typology comprises nine
different text types – namely Presentation of information, Opinion and discussion, Analysis and debate, Description, Interactive recount,
Engaging demonstration, Playful discourse, Simplified interaction, and Simulated conversation. The paper discusses and illustrates each text
type and considers how telecinematic discourse relates to each of them.
Keywords: multi-dimensional analysis, American television programs, text typology, telecinematic discourse
Published online: 12 November 2020
https://doi.org/10.1075/ijcl.00039.ber
https://doi.org/10.1075/ijcl.00039.ber
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