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Vocabulary Demands of Informal Spoken English Revisited: What Does It Take to Understand Movies, TV Programs, and Soap Operas? [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2022
The article presents a methodological update on the lexical profile of informal spoken English with the emphasis on movies, television programs, and soap operas. The study analyzed Mark Davies’s mega-corpora with data containing approximately 625 million
Hung Tan Ha
exaly   +4 more sources

Sex, ‘soaps’ and HIV

open access: yesCommunicare, 2022
The phenomenon of multiple and concurrent partnerships (MCPs) is a key driver of the South African HIV epidemic. Given that the epidemic is stabilising though not yet declining, reducing the frequency of MCPs should constitute part of South Africa’s ...
Natalie Ridgard
doaj   +1 more source

Social Class, TV Series and Resistance: the Reception of Turkish Dramas by Greeks

open access: yesSeries. International journal of tv serial narratives, 2023
Turkey has a leading role on the international media scene as far as the export of serial dramas is concerned. Turkish soap operas represent the preoccupations of poor persons and their (mis)adventures following their encounter with wealthy people.
Dimitra Laurence Larochelle
doaj   +1 more source

Impact of prime time soap operas on glycemic control

open access: yesIndian Journal of Endocrinology and Metabolism, 2019
Sruti Chandrasekaran   +1 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Soap Opera Viewing Motives among College Students in the Republic of Armenia [PDF]

open access: yesKOME: An International Journal of Pure Communication Inquiry, 2017
Soap operas are a popular culture phenomenon around the globe, including the Republic of Armenia (Armenia hereafter), a small ancient and changing society in post-Soviet era.
Flora Keshishian, Vahram Mirakyan
doaj   +1 more source

Measuring the Effects of Soap Operas on Television Viewers: A Comparative Analysis of Male and Female Viewers

open access: yesJournal of Business and Social Review in Emerging Economies, 2022
Purpose: The present research seeks to explore the effects of Soap operas on television viewers. It had made comparative analysis of male and female viewer’s perception regarding the image of female empowerment as projected in soap operas.
Beenish Zaheen   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

An Alternative for Turkish Serials: Uses and Gratifications of Watching Indian Soap Operas by Turkish Female Viewers

open access: yesTürkiye İletişim Araştırmaları Dergisi, 2022
In the past few years, the popularity of Indian soap operas has skyrocketed in Turkey, especially in 2016 due to Is Pyaar Ko Kya Naam Doon? (Bir Garip Aşk).
Yeliz Yücel, Yeşim Ceren Çapraz
doaj   +1 more source

Audiences and Television Soap Operas (Women’s Readings of Parvaz- Dar- Hobab) [PDF]

open access: yesTaḥqīqāt-i Farhangī-i Īrān, 2008
This research is an attempt to explain how audiences read and decode the dominant or preferred reading of television soap operas ( here, one of them named : Parvaz Dar Hobab ).
Jamal Mohammadi
doaj   +1 more source

Promoting HIV/AIDS Prevention through Soap Operas

open access: yesCommunicare, 2022
In the past three decades television soap operas have been used as a means of health education and persuasion. In recent years, the proliferation of entertainment television worldwide has made the soap opera a powerful source of educational and social ...
William Brown   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

European Soap Operas: The Diversification of a Genre [PDF]

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Communication, 1998
Analysis of the most popular locally made soap operas in each of five European countries reveals that the soap opera is not simply an imported American genre. The study of British, Scandinavian and European soaps, based on an `ethnographic' approach to the social networks in the world of the soaps, shows that these countries have developed three ...
Tamar Liebes, Sonia Livingstone
openaire   +1 more source

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