影视文体学:奇幻电视剧中的语言与风格

IF 0.6 3区文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS

Language and Literature Pub Date : 2023-11-08 DOI:10.1177/09639470231214673

Adrián Castro

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人们对书面奇幻语言进行了充分的研究，对JR·托尔金、罗伯特·E·霍华德或奥尔德斯·赫胥黎等作家进行了广泛的研究。另一方面，对电视语言的研究正引起越来越多的关注，尽管这类研究的范围往往是单个电视节目，而不是整个类型。鉴于人们对奇幻题材重新产生兴趣，本研究试图从语料库文体的角度分析奇幻电视剧的语言，为语言学研究开辟新的途径。首先，我脱离了基于Mandala(2012)对该领域的概述以及James和Mendlesohn(2012)将幻想定义为一种类型的理论区分;我考虑了他们与书面幻想相关的一些特征，并提出了不同类型的电视幻想世界的分类。在此基础上，我设计了自己的电视奇幻语料库，从15部美国奇幻电视剧(2011-2021)中抽取3集，并与戴维斯的电视语料库(2021)进行比较。使用基于语料库的方法，我实现了语料库的词性和语义分析，并考虑电视中的幻想语言是否反映了学者们在书面幻想和一般电视话语中发现的相同特征，如果是，如何反映。在这样做的过程中，我的目的是促进对幻想风格作为一种体裁的理解，并评估幻想电视剧是否具有特定的语言特征。

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Telecinematic stylistics: Language and style in fantasy TV series

The language of written fantasy has been amply studied, with extensive research on authors such as JR Tolkien, Robert E Howard, or Aldous Huxley. The study of television language, on the other hand, is attracting increasing attention, even though the scope of such research often encompasses a single TV show rather than whole genres. Given the renewed interest in all things fantasy, this study seeks to analyze the language of fantasy TV series from a corpus-stylistic perspective to open new paths for linguistic inquiry. First, I depart from a theoretical distinction that relies on Mandala’s (2012) overview of the field and James and Mendlesohn’s (2012) definitions of fantasy as a genre; I consider some of the traits they associate with written fantasy and propose a taxonomy of the different types of fantasy worlds in television. On the basis of this, I design my own TV fantasy corpus by sampling three episodes from fifteen American fantasy TV shows (2011-2021) and compare it against Davies’ TV Corpus (2021). Using a corpus-based approach, I implement a POS (part-of-speech) and semantic analysis of the corpus and consider whether, and if so how, the language of fantasy in television reflects the same characteristics scholars have identified in written fantasy and general television discourse. In doing so, I aim to contribute to the understanding of the style of fantasy as a genre and assess whether fantasy TV series are characterized by particular linguistic features.

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Language and Literature Multiple-

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期刊介绍： Language and Literature is an invaluable international peer-reviewed journal that covers the latest research in stylistics, defined as the study of style in literary and non-literary language. We publish theoretical, empirical and experimental research that aims to make a contribution to our understanding of style and its effects on readers. Topics covered by the journal include (but are not limited to) the following: the stylistic analysis of literary and non-literary texts, cognitive approaches to text comprehension, corpus and computational stylistics, the stylistic investigation of multimodal texts, pedagogical stylistics, the reading process, software development for stylistics, and real-world applications for stylistic analysis. We welcome articles that investigate the relationship between stylistics and other areas of linguistics, such as text linguistics, sociolinguistics and translation studies. We also encourage interdisciplinary submissions that explore the connections between stylistics and such cognate subjects and disciplines as psychology, literary studies, narratology, computer science and neuroscience. Language and Literature is essential reading for academics, teachers and students working in stylistics and related areas of language and literary studies.