A linguistic typology of American television

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International Journal of Corpus Linguistics Pub Date : 2020-11-12 DOI:10.1075/IJCL.00039.BER

Tony Berber Sardinha, M. Pinto

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Abstract

Abstract This paper presents the first entirely linguistic typology of contemporary American television, derived from a multi-dimensional (MD) analysis of the USTV corpus. The USTV corpus comprises 930 texts from 191 different TV programs, classified into 31 different registers (including nine telecinematic ones: drama series, miniseries, movies, sitcoms, soap operas, general animation, children’s animation, short-feature animation, and children’s and teens’ shows). The linguistic typology we present in this study is based on the linguistic characteristics present in the individual programs, with no a priori textual categorizations. A cluster analysis grouped the individual programs into clusters that shared similar dimensional profiles. The resulting typology comprises nine different text types – namely Presentation of information, Opinion and discussion, Analysis and debate, Description, Interactive recount, Engaging demonstration, Playful discourse, Simplified interaction, and Simulated conversation. The paper discusses and illustrates each text type and considers how telecinematic discourse relates to each of them.

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美国电视的语言类型学

摘要本文提出了当代美国电视的第一个完全语言类型学，源于对USTV语料库的多维分析。USTV语料库包括来自191个不同电视节目的930篇文本，分为31个不同的寄存器（包括9个电视电影寄存器：电视连续剧、迷你剧、电影、情景喜剧、肥皂剧、普通动画、儿童动画、短片动画以及儿童和青少年节目）。我们在本研究中提出的语言类型学是基于单个程序中存在的语言特征，没有先验的文本分类。聚类分析将各个程序分组为具有相似维度配置文件的聚类。由此产生的类型学包括九种不同的文本类型，即信息呈现、观点和讨论、分析和辩论、描述、互动叙述、参与演示、有趣的话语、简化互动和模拟对话。本文讨论并举例说明了每一种文本类型，并考虑了电视电影话语与每一种类型的关系。

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期刊介绍： The International Journal of Corpus Linguistics (IJCL) publishes original research covering methodological, applied and theoretical work in any area of corpus linguistics. Through its focus on empirical language research, IJCL provides a forum for the presentation of new findings and innovative approaches in any area of linguistics (e.g. lexicology, grammar, discourse analysis, stylistics, sociolinguistics, morphology, contrastive linguistics), applied linguistics (e.g. language teaching, forensic linguistics), and translation studies. Based on its interest in corpus methodology, IJCL also invites contributions on the interface between corpus and computational linguistics.