Affiliation:
1. São Paulo Catholic University
2. Federal University of São Paulo
Abstract
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.
Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Subject
Linguistics and Language,Language and Linguistics
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