Lexical diversity as a predictor of genre in TV shows

IF 0.7 3区文学 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Digital Scholarship in the Humanities Pub Date : 2023-03-25 DOI:10.1093/llc/fqad004

Mary Akbary, Scott Jarvis

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Abstract

Abstract Many studies have investigated the linguistic characteristics of television and have found important differences between categories of TV programs. Yet, little is known specifically about the lexical profiles of different genres of television discourse. The present study sought to address this gap by exploring the lexical diversity of 714 episodes representing four TV genres. The lexical diversity of each episode was measured using a six-dimensional model of lexical diversity. Multinomial logistic regression was used to determine whether the four TV genres in the present study have unique lexical diversity profiles and whether the genres of individual TV episodes can be predicted based on the adopted model. The results indicated that the four genres do indeed exhibit unique lexical diversity profiles; it was also found that the genres of individual TV episodes can be predicted with approximately 91% accuracy based on this model. These findings were interpreted as underscoring the relevance of lexical diversity to genre analysis of TV shows and the importance of using a theoretically grounded multivariate model of this construct.

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词汇多样性作为电视节目体裁的预测因子

许多研究对电视的语言特征进行了调查，并发现了电视节目类别之间的重要差异。然而，人们对不同类型电视语篇的词汇特征却知之甚少。本研究试图通过探索代表四种电视类型的714集的词汇多样性来解决这一差距。使用词汇多样性的六维模型测量每个情节的词汇多样性。本研究采用多项逻辑回归来检验四种电视类型是否具有独特的词汇多样性特征，以及所采用的模型是否可以预测个别电视剧集的类型。结果表明，这四种文体确实表现出独特的词汇多样性特征;研究还发现，基于该模型，单个电视剧的类型预测准确率约为91%。这些发现被解释为强调了词汇多样性与电视节目类型分析的相关性，以及使用这种结构的理论基础多元模型的重要性。

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Digital Scholarship in the Humanities Multiple-

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期刊介绍： DSH or Digital Scholarship in the Humanities is an international, peer reviewed journal which publishes original contributions on all aspects of digital scholarship in the Humanities including, but not limited to, the field of what is currently called the Digital Humanities. Long and short papers report on theoretical, methodological, experimental, and applied research and include results of research projects, descriptions and evaluations of tools, techniques, and methodologies, and reports on work in progress. DSH also publishes reviews of books and resources. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities was previously known as Literary and Linguistic Computing.