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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. 167–201

Chapter 7
Beyond individual series

Analyses of US and Australian television dialogue corpora

Article outline
  • 7.1Introduction
  • 7.2Case study 1: The use of a stigmatised language feature in US television
    • 7.2.1Background: Ain’t as a stigmatised language feature
    • 7.2.2Ain’t and characterisation
  • 7.3Case study 2: AAE lexis in Indigenous-authored television series
    • 7.3.1Background: Indigenous representation and AAE
    • 7.3.2Using lexical profiling to analyse AAE lexis
    • 7.3.3Corpus and methodology
      • 7.3.3.1The Ngara corpus
      • 7.3.3.2Methodology
    • 7.3.4Results
      • 7.3.4.1AAE words: Frequency, range, and character diffusion
      • 7.3.4.2AAE words: Character ethnicity
    • 7.3.5Case study summary
  • 7.4Chapter conclusion
  • Notes