Watching TV with a linguist /
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| Language: | English |
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Syracuse :
Syracuse University Press,
2016.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Television series (Syracuse, N.Y.)
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The linguist's view of television / Kristy Beers Fägersten
- Watching the detective: Sherlock and spoken television discourse / Kay Richardson
- Dealers and discourse: sociolinguistic variation in The wire / Joe Trotta
- "Back in St. Olaf...": regional variation in The Golden Girls / Jean Ann
- SaMANtha: language and gender in Sex and the city / Kristy Beers Fägersten and Hanna Sveen
- The pragmatics explication: making sense of nerds in The big bang theory / Matthias Eitelmann and Ulrike Stange
- Cunning linguistics: the semantics of word play in South Park / Michael Percillier
- Word formation in HIMYM / Jessie Sams
- What's the deal with morphemes? doing morphology with Seinfeld / Kristy Beers Fägersten
- Channel surfing: tuning into the sounds of English / Kristy Beers Fägersten
- Syntax in Seattle / Güliat Aygen
- I'm learneding! first language acquisition in The Simpsons / Kristy Beers Fägersten
- Lost and language found / Kristy Beers Fägersten and Ilaria Fiorentini
- The one based on 738,032 words: language use in the Friends-corpus / Paulo Quaglio
- Appendix A: WMatrix grammatical tags
- Appendix B: WMatrix semantic tags
- Glossary
- Contributors.