Emotionality in popular culture
Funding source:
UTS Chancellor's Post-doctoral Research Fellowship
Project Member(s):
Bednarek, Monika
Summary:
This project aims to understand the role of interpersonal language in the construal of character identity (characterisation) in American television series. It combines the theoretical notion of performativity (Butler) with corpus linguistic methodology, while also taking into account small-scale computer-assisted discourse analysis and qualitative case studies
