1st Edition
Corpus-Based Sociocultural Linguistics and the Representation of Linguistic Diversity on Television
Preface, Chapter 1 Corpus linguistics and indexicality in fictional media: an Australian case study of linguistic diversity on television, Chapter 2 Data and methodology, Chapter 3 Keyword analysis: an overview, Chapter 4 Telecinematic indexicalities: keywords and character identity, Chapter 5 Lexical profiling and important indexes of Aboriginal identity, Chapter 6 Lexical profiling of unfamiliar words: variation, use, indexicalities, Chapter 7 Longer lexical structures and grammatical features, Chapter 8 Conclusion, Appendix, References, Index
Biography
Monika Bednarek is Professor in Linguistics at the University of Sydney, Australia.
"In this innovative and welcome monograph, Monika Bednarek both develops an entirely new linguistic subfield, corpus-based sociocultural linguistics, and demonstrates the empirical value of this approach through an insightful analysis of how fictional television indexically represents minoritized linguistic varieties, particularly Australian Aboriginal English."
- Professor Mary Bucholtz, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
"Few books make my recommendations list, but this is one. If you want a blueprint for integrating methods and theories from corpus linguistics and sociocultural linguistics – with a particular focus on ethnic identities – this is a must-read."
- Professor Jonathan Culpeper, Lancaster University, UK
