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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. 73–104

Chapter 4
Characters and stereotypes

Article outline
  • 4.1Introduction
  • 4.2The Big Bang Theory
  • 4.3Nerd stereotypes/schemas
  • 4.4Methods
    • 4.4.1Concordance and key word analysis
    • 4.4.2Scene-based analysis
  • 4.5Results
    • 4.5.1Character insights from concordance analysis
    • 4.5.2Character insights from key word analysis
    • 4.5.3Character insights from scene-based analysis
    • 4.5.4Sheldon compared to other television characters
    • 4.5.5Beyond Sheldon: Nerds in The Big Bang Theory
  • 4.6Conclusion
  • Notes