“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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| 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 |
| 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. |
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