“What the hell are you talking about?”: lexical variation in american reality TV shows

Throughout the last two decades Reality TV has had huge commercial and audience success, which has led to the study of different academic fields. The purpose of this research is to identify the lexical dimensions of variation (BERBER SARDINHA, 2014b) in American Reality TV shows. The corpus of the s...

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Autor: Araújo, Rafael Fonseca de
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:Brasil
Institución:Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC-SP)
Repositorio:Intercâmbio (Online)
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/58359
Acceso en línea:https://revistas.pucsp.br/index.php/intercambio/article/view/58359
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Multidimensional Analysis
Lexical Dimensions
Corpus Linguistics
Reality TV
Análise Multidimensional
Dimensões lexicais
Linguística de Corpus
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Sumario:Throughout the last two decades Reality TV has had huge commercial and audience success, which has led to the study of different academic fields. The purpose of this research is to identify the lexical dimensions of variation (BERBER SARDINHA, 2014b) in American Reality TV shows. The corpus of the study – a dataset from Corpus of American Reality TV shows, made of 260 texts from 13 different types, totaling more the two million words – was tagged with the TreeTagger and the Lexical Multi-dimensional Analysis (BERBER SARDINHA, 2019) was carried out identifying seven dimensions of lexical variation comprising the main topics/discourses of this register.