| dc.description.abstract | While it may seem counterintuitive to examine a visual medium through its dialogue alone, linguists such as Paulo Quaglio and Monika Bednarak have been doing just that. Using a freeware concordance toolkit and other computer programs, the author analyzes the dialogue of the first 10 seasons of the American television program Supernatural (2005-present) through several facets in an attempt to demonstrate originality, variety, and how language contributes to character individuation. Using fan-made transcripts, the author has created three main corpora for the study: the SPN Corpus, which includes all dialogue from the first 218 episodes, and the DEAN and SAM Corpora, comprised of all of the dialogue of each of the two main characters. The SUBTLEXUS corpus of American film and television dialogue was used as a reference corpus. A sampling of Supernatural episodes is also compared to that of other contemporary genre shows. | en_US |
