A Corpus Analysis on the Language on TV Series

Autor/inn/en	Sezgin, Hatice; Öztürk, Mustafa Serkan
Titel	A Corpus Analysis on the Language on TV Series
Quelle	In: Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 16 (2020) 1, S.238-252 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Sezgin, Hatice) ORCID (Öztürk, Mustafa Serkan)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1305-578X
Schlagwörter	Television; Programming (Broadcast); Vocabulary Development; Word Frequency; Speech Communication; Computational Linguistics; Language Variation; English; Foreign Countries; Contrastive Linguistics; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Fernsehen; Fernsehtechnik; Programmgestaltung; Wortschatzarbeit; Word analysis; Frequency; Wortanalyse; Häufigkeit; Linguistics; Computerlinguistik; Sprachenvielfalt; English language; Englisch; Ausland; Kontrastive Linguistik; Großbritannien
Abstract	The purpose of the present study is to find out the extent to which the real spoken language is reflected in TV series in terms of vocabulary. In accordance with this purpose, a corpus, named as the British TV Series Corpus (BTSC) was compiled for the present study using two British TV series, Sherlock and Doctor Who, and this corpus was compared to the spoken part of the British National Corpus (BNC), more than 40% of which was compiled from naturally occurring speech in order to find out whether there is a relationship between two corpora. The results showed that the TV series corpus covered the 98.54% of the most frequent lemmas in the spoken part of the British National Corpus, so the language used in TV series reflects the language spoken in the real life in terms of the vocabulary items and their frequency. Accordingly, it can be claimed that TV series can be used as effective in-class and extra-curricular materials for teaching vocabulary and speaking and listening skills. [Paper presented at the International Conference on Research in Applied Linguistics (3rd, Konya, Turkey, Oct 24-26 2019).] (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies. Hacettepe Universitesi, Egitim Fakultesi B Blok, Yabanci Diller Egitimi Bolumu, Ingiliz Dili Egitimi Anabilim Dali, Ankara 06800, Turkey. e-mail: jllsturkey@gmail.com; Web site: http://www.jlls.org
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01