In:Language and Characterisation in Television Series: A corpus-informed approach to the construction of social identity in the media
Monika Bednarek
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics 106] 2023
► pp. 73–104
Chapter 4Characters and stereotypes
Published online: 1 March 2023
https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.106.c4
https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.106.c4
Article outline
- 4.1Introduction
- 4.2The Big Bang Theory
- 4.3Nerd stereotypes/schemas
- 4.4Methods
- 4.4.1Concordance and key word analysis
- 4.4.2Scene-based analysis
- 4.5Results
- 4.5.1Character insights from concordance analysis
- 4.5.2Character insights from key word analysis
- 4.5.3Character insights from scene-based analysis
- 4.5.4Sheldon compared to other television characters
- 4.5.5Beyond Sheldon: Nerds in The Big Bang Theory
- 4.6Conclusion
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