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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. 133–165

Chapter 6
Characterisation and the use of marginalised varieties of English

Article outline
  • 6.1Introduction
  • 6.2Indigenous characters and Australian Aboriginal English
  • 6.3Marginalised and “non-standard” Englishes in telecinematic discourse
  • 6.4Methodology
    • 6.4.1Redfern Now
    • 6.4.2The RFN corpus
    • 6.4.3Approach
  • 6.5Findings
    • 6.5.1Key words and their range
    • 6.5.2Australian English/culture
    • 6.5.3Aboriginal ways of using English
    • 6.5.4Kinship terms
    • 6.5.5Additional AAE lexis
  • 6.6Conclusion
  • Notes