“What the hell are you talking about?”: variação lexical em reality TV shows norte-americanos

Rafael Fonseca de Araújo

Authors

Rafael Fonseca de Araújo Universidade Metropolitana de Santos https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6398-9835

Keywords:

Multidimensional Analysis, Lexical Dimensions, Corpus Linguistics, Reality TV

Abstract

Throughout the last two decades Reality TV has had huge commercial and audience success, which has led to the study of different academic fields. The purpose of this research is to identify the lexical dimensions of variation (BERBER SARDINHA, 2014b) in American Reality TV shows. The corpus of the study – a dataset from Corpus of American Reality TV shows, made of 260 texts from 13 different types, totaling more the two million words – was tagged with the TreeTagger and the Lexical Multi-dimensional Analysis (BERBER SARDINHA, 2019) was carried out identifying seven dimensions of lexical variation comprising the main topics/discourses of this register.

Author Biography

Rafael Fonseca de Araújo, Universidade Metropolitana de Santos

PhD candidate (2019-2022) and Master (2017) in Applied Linguistics and Language Studies at the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP). Postgraduate in Portuguese from the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (PUCSP). He has a full degree in Letters - Portuguese and English - Faculdade Don Domenico (2000). He is currently a professor of Technical and Higher Education in English at the Paula Souza State Center for Technological Education (ETEC Dona Escolástica Rosa and FATEC da Baixada Santista-Rubens Lara). Master Teacher of Instrumental English for Foreign Trade and Librarianship at the Metropolitan University of Santos - UNIMES. He has experience in Applied Linguistics, working mainly on the following subjects: Corpus Linguistics, Planning; Compilation of Organization of Corpora; Multi-dimensional Functional and Lexical Analysis; Textual Typology; Social Representation; Language of Television and Reality TV Shows.

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