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  • About
  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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The Insane Narrator in Contemporary American Fiction

Coelen, George Ronald 08 1900 (has links)
This study is an inquiry into the relationship between the contemporary American writer's understanding of American reality and his attempt to convey this reality by the use of an insane first-person point of view character. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate that the insane narrator's point of view not only recreates the feeling of absurdity through the disjointed point of view of the madman, but also points to the absurdity in contemporary American life. The first part of this study analyzes the narrators in Henderson the Rain King, The Bell Jar, and Lancelot. The second part uses A Fan's Notes, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, and Breakfast of Champions to discuss the problems that arise from the use of an insane narrator.
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A linguagem dos reality TV shows norte-­americanos: análise e classificação

Araújo, Rafael Fonseca de 30 March 2017 (has links)
Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2017-04-06T12:50:58Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Rafael Fonseca de Araújo.pdf: 9767748 bytes, checksum: 9ba35e483f432ff6315a1d92099ab469 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-04-06T12:50:58Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Rafael Fonseca de Araújo.pdf: 9767748 bytes, checksum: 9ba35e483f432ff6315a1d92099ab469 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-03-30 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / This thesis presents a Multi-­dimensional (MD) analysis (Biber, 1988 et seq.) of a Corpus of American Reality TV Shows (CARTS). Reality television can be described as unscripted television shows with non-­professional actors being observed by cameras in preconfigured environments (Kavka, 2012) and despite of being a relatively new TV genre is a cornerstone of contemporary US television programming, since according to some critics it has remade television culture (Murray and Quellette 2004). The major goal of the study was to provide a lexical-­grammatical description of the verbal language of Reality TV shows by investigating a corpus of 780 texts taken from 39 popular American Reality TV shows, totaling over 6 million tokens. The specific goals were to compare CARTS against the four dimensions of general English register variation as well as against the five dimensions of American television register variation (Berber Sardinha;; Veirano Pinto, in press). CARTS texts were classified into four main program types (Competition, Documentary, Talent and Professional, and Transformation) and into 13 sub-­program types, namely, celebrities, dating, gamedoc, docusoap, hidden cameras, reality sitcoms, business, cooking, fashion, performing, expert guidance, self-­improvement and social experimental. The corpus was balanced so that each major category had the same number of texts. CARTS was tagged for part of speech with the Biber Tagger and analyzed by the Bibber Tag Count which calculated the normalized frequencies of the 128 linguistics features considered in the research. The results present the additive MD analysis by showing how reality TV shows are similar or different from others spoken and written English registers (from Biber seminal 1988 study), as well as how the various manifestations of Reality TV compare to television registers on US. Since there is no precedent for studies within Corpus Linguistics dedicated to researching the lexical-­grammatical profile of Reality TV Shows in a multidimensional perspective, this research intends to fill this gap / O presente trabalho apresenta uma Análise Multidimensional (BIBER, 1988 et seq.) do Corpus of American Reality TV Shows (CARTS). Reality TV shows podem ser descritos como programas de televisão sem roteiro, com atores não profissionais sendo observados por câmeras em ambiente pré-­configurados (KAVKA, 2012) e apesar de ser um gênero de televisão relativamente novo é considerado um marco na programação da televisão nos EUA, uma vez que reinventou a cultura da televisão (MURRAY e QUELLETTE, 2004). O principal objetivo do estudo é fornecer uma descrição dos padrões léxico-­gramaticais da linguagem verbal dos Reality TV shows. Os objetivos específicos foram comparar o CARTS com as cinco principais dimensões de variação da Língua Inglesa (BIBER, 1988 et seq.), bem como em contraste com as quatro dimensões de variação de registro da televisão norte-­americana (BERBER SARDINHA e VEIRANO PINTO, no prelo). O CARTS é formado por 780 textos extraídos de 39 reality TV shows norte-­americanos populares, totalizando cerca de 6 milhões de palavras. Os textos do corpus foram classificados em quatro principais categorias Competição, Documentário, Talento e Profissão, e Transformação que, por sua vez, foram subdivididas em 13 subcategorias nomeadas: celebridades, namoro, jogo-­documentário, novela-­documentário, câmeras escondidas e portáteis, reality sitcom, business, culinária, moda, artistas de palco, orientação de especialistas, melhoria pessoal e experimento social. O corpus foi balanceado para que cada categoria tivesse a mesma quantidade de textos, etiquetado gramaticalmente com o Biber Tagger e processado pelo Biber Tag Count que calcula a frequência normalizada das 128 variáveis linguísticas consideradas no estudo. Os resultados da Análise Multidimensional demonstram como os reality TV shows se assemelham ou se diferenciam dos demais registros da Língua Inglesa propostos por Biber (1988) em seu estudo seminal, tal como as várias manifestações de Reality TV se comparam aos registros da televisão norte-­americana. Uma vez que não há precedentes de estudos, dentro da Linguística de Corpus, dedicados à investigação do perfil léxico-­ gramatical dos reality TV shows em uma perspectiva multidimensional, a presente pesquisa pretende preencher esta lacuna

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