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Do Sitcom Conversations Fully Depict Those in Natural Settings: A Corpus-Based Lexical Analysis
SAGE OpenAn increasing number of studies in pragmatics, second language acquisition, and related fields have opted to use sitcom conversations as a substitute for natural conversations in their analyses.
Min Li, Yan Xiao
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TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Repeated viewing is reportedly a common learning and pedagogical strategy among autonomous second language (L2) learners and language teachers. This experimental study examined the extent to which sequential captioning use facilitates the acquisition of multiword expressions (MWEs) through repeated viewing under incidental learning conditions.
Kenneth W. Y. Li, Yaxin Ni
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A Femininomenon: Leadership Development Through Representation On‐Screen
New Directions for Student Leadership, Volume 2025, Issue 185, Page 67-74, Spring 2025.ABSTRACT Historically, films and television centered men, but there has recently been a shift toward focusing on women and people of color (and women of color) in leading roles. Films and shows like Black Panther, Barbie, and Ashoka reflect this trend, offering more complex stories and diverse representation.
Kathleen Callahan
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“Deve valer alguma coisa”: análise de Borges pelo método da engenharia reversa
Cadernos CajuínaO formato televisivo conhecido como sitcom tem sua estrutura determinada pela poética aristotélica, conforme comprovado por manuais de roteiro norte-americanos e estudos sobre obras estadunidenses.
Eduardo Peron, João Paulo Hergesel
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LingBaWAdvancing the proposal that conversationalists frequently engage in humorous communication to convey propositional meanings, the paper aims to employ pragmatic inferential mechanisms specified in a relevance-theoretic framework in order to explicate the
Magdalena Wieczorek
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Journal of Periodontal Research, EarlyView.The IMPOSTERS study analysed 150 recurring ‘human’ Simpsons characters and found that periodontitis or tooth loss was associated with a 23‐fold higher hazard of all‐cause mortality. This was reported in the Simpsons universe, with the death of ‘Bleeding Gums’ Murphy, 3 years before the first such reports in our universe.
Praveen Sharma, Thomas Dietrich
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Secuencias, 2016 Este trabajo ofrece un análisis comparativo de las características propias de la comedia palliata de Plauto (comediógrafo romano del siglo II a.C.) y de los elementos definitorios de la sitcom, género televisivo de gran aceptación popular.
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Middlebrow Aesthetics: An Explanation and Defense
Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We offer a philosophical account of the middlebrow as a theoretical category to do explanatory and critical work in aesthetics. On our account, the middlebrow ought to be understood as aspirational popular art. That is, it is art which aspires both to be popular (in a distinctive sense), and at the same time to be something more than popular ...
Aaron Meskin, Jonathan M. Weinberg
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Brazilian English Language Teaching Journal, 2021 Devido à importância de se aprender a usar a língua em diversas situações, sitcoms podem ajudar no desenvolvimento da competência pragmática, por sua linguagem contextualizada e semelhante à vida real.
Cezar, Leticia Mello
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Introduction: Charting the Evolution of English and Anglophone Writing in Asia
World Englishes, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This introductory article explores the history of the English language and literatures in the Asian ‘Outer Circle’ countries, or English in its ‘second diaspora’, focusing primarily on literature from its beginnings to the present. Due to space limitations, the scope is further narrowed to poetry and the novel – the two genres that, arguably ...
Mohammad A. Quayum
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