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- Title
Dimensions of variation across American television registers.
- Authors
Berber Sardinha, Tony; Veirano Pinto, Marcia
- Abstract
The goal of this study is to identify the dimensions of variation across American television programs, following the multidimensional analysis (MD) framework introduced by Biber (1988). Although television is a major form of mass communication, there has been no previous large-scale MD study of television dialogue. A large corpus containing the key types of contemporary American television programs was collected, annotated with the Biber tagger, and subjected to multi-dimensional analysis, which indicated four factors of statistically correlated linguistic features. Each of these factors was interpreted communicatively to reveal the underlying dimensions of variation on American television, namely "Exposition and discussion vs. Simplified interaction" (Dimension 1), "Simulated conversation" (Dimension 2), "Recount" (Dimension 3) and "Engaging presentation" (Dimension 4). This article presents, illustrates, and discusses each of these dimensions, showing the macro linguistic patterns in use across hundreds of American television programs.
- Subjects
UNITED States; AMERICAN television dramas; TELEVISION programs; LINGUISTICS; FARNSWORTH, Philo T., 1906-1971; RADIO Corp. of America; COLUMBIA Broadcasting System Inc.
- Publication
International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 2019, Vol 24, Issue 1, p3
- ISSN
1384-6655
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1075/ijcl.15014.ber