List of Illustrations ....................................... ix
Acknowledgments ............................................. xi
Abbreviations ............................................. xiii
Introduction
The Linguist's View of Television
KRISTY BEERS FÄGERSTEN ....................................... 1
1 Watching the Detective
Sherlock and Spoken Television Discourse
KAY RICHARDSON .............................................. 14
2 Dealers and Discourse
Sociolinguistic Variation in The Wire
JOE TROTTA .................................................. 40
3 "Back in St. Olaf..."
Regional Variation in The Golden Girls
JEAN ANN .................................................... 66
4 SaMANtha
Language and Gender in Sex and the City
KRISTY BEERS FÄGERSTEN AND HANNA SVEEN ...................... 85
5 The Pragmatics Explication
Making Sense of Nerds in The Big Bang Theory
MATTHIAS EITELMANN AND ULRIKE STANGE ....................... 114
6 Cunning Linguistics
The Semantics of Word Play in South Park
MICHAEL PERCILLIER ......................................... 139
7 Word Formation in HIMYM
JESSIE SAMS ................................................ 161
8 What's the Deal with Morphemes?
Doing Morphology with Seinfeld
KRISTY BEERS FÄGERSTEN ..................................... 181
9 Channel Surfing
Tuning into the Sounds of English
KRISTY BEERS FÄGERSTEN ..................................... 202
10 Syntax in Seattle
GÜLŞAT AYGEN ............................................... 231
11 I'm Learneding!
First Language Acquisition in The Simpsons
KRISTY BEERS FÄGERSTEN ..................................... 257
12 Lost and Language Found
KRISTY BEERS FÄGERSTEN AND ILARIA FIORENTINI ............... 282
13 The One Based on 738,032 Words
Language Use in the Friends-corpus
PAULO QUAGLIO .............................................. 307
Appendix A: WMatrix Grammatical Tags ....................... 337
Appendix B: WMatrix Semantic Tags .......................... 341
Glossary ................................................... 347
Contributors ............................................... 357
Index ...................................................... 361
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