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Bednarek, Monika – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2012
This paper analyses the linguistic construction of the televisual character Sheldon--the "main nerd" in the sitcom "The Big Bang Theory" (CBS, 2007-), approaching this construction of character through both computerised and "manual" linguistic analysis. More specifically, a computer analysis of dialogue (using concordances and keyword analysis) in…
Descriptors: Sociolinguistics, Interpersonal Communication, Personality, Cues