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Subject(s)

• Television broadcasting—Language [Browse]
• Television series—United States [Browse]
• Dialogue analysis [Browse]
• Conversation analysis [Browse]
• Sociolinguistics [Browse]

Editor

• Beers Fägersten, Kristy [Browse]

Series

• Television series (Syracuse, N.Y.) [More in this series]
• Television and popular culture

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Reproduction note

Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.

Source of description

Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.

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.

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ISBN

• 9780815653950 ((electronic bk.))
• 0815653956 ((electronic bk.))

LCCN

2016035678

OCLC

955275501

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