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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. 45–72

Chapter 3
Character differentiation and character stability

Article outline
  • 3.1Introduction
  • 3.2Gilmore Girls
  • 3.3Case study 1: Character differentiation
    • 3.3.1Lorelai as unique character
    • 3.3.2Lorelai as an emotional character
  • 3.4Case study 2: Character stability
    • 3.4.1Lorelai: An example of a “stable” televisual character?
    • 3.4.2Diachronic character stability re-visited
    • 3.4.3Intersubjective stability re-visited
      • Content words
      • Names
      • Reference to family roles
      • (+ Human) pronouns
      • Interpersonal markers
    • 3.4.4Revisiting stability: The Gilmore Girls reboot
  • 3.5Conclusion
  • Notes