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Language and Characterisation in Television Series: A corpus-informed approach to the construction of social identity in the media
Monika Bednarek
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics 106] 2023
► pp. 1–25

Chapter 1
Televisual characterisation

Article outline
  • 1.1Introduction
  • 1.2Creating characters: Processes and authorship
  • 1.3Characters and the audience
  • 1.4Features of the televisual character
    • 1.4.1Stability
    • 1.4.2Aspects of character identity
  • 1.5Frameworks for the linguistic study of televisual characterisation
    • 1.5.1Cognitive stylistics: Schemas and textual cues
    • 1.5.2Sociolinguistics: Telecinematic indexicalities
    • 1.5.3A mixed approach to televisual characterisation
  • 1.6This book’s case study approach
  • Notes