Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: The linguist's view of television / Kristy Beers Fägersten
  • Watching the detective: Sherlock and spoken television discourse / Kay Richardson
  • Dealers and discourse: sociolinguistic variation in The wire / Joe Trotta
  • "Back in St. Olaf ... ": regional variation in The Golden Girls / Jean Ann
  • SaMANtha: language and gender in Sex and the city / Kristy Beers Fägersten and Hanna Sveen
  • The pragmatics explication: making sense of nerds in The big bang theory / Matthias Eitelmann and Ulrike Stange
  • Cunning linguistics: the semantics of word play in South Park / Michael Percillier
  • Word formation in HIMYM / Jessie Sams
  • What's the deal with morphemes? doing morphology with Seinfeld / Kristy Beers Fägersten
  • Channel surfing: tuning into the sounds of English / Kristy Beers Fägersten
  • Syntax in Seattle / Güliat Aygen
  • I'm learneding! first language acquisition in The Simpsons / Kristy Beers Fägersten
  • Lost and language found / Kristy Beers Fägersten and Ilaria Fiorentini
  • The one based on 738,032 words: language use in the Friends-corpus / Paulo Quaglio
  • Appendix A: WMatrix grammatical tags
  • Appendix B: WMatrix semantic tags
  • Glossary
  • Contributors.