Essays about: "soap operas"

Found 3 essays containing the words soap operas.

1. 1. Sociolinguistics of Swearing : A corpus-based investigation of male and female use of damn, darn, hell and heck in soap operas compared to real life

   University essay from Institutionen för språk (SPR)

   Author : Sabine Mårtensson Vahlqvist; [2013]
   Keywords : Damn; darn; heck; hell; soap operas; sociolinguistics; swearing;

   Abstract : This essay will investigate male and female usage of four swear words: hell, heck, damn and darn. A minor part of the essay focuses on comparing real life speech (by using the Longman Corpus of Spoken American English) with scripted language in soap operas (the SOAP corpus). READ MORE

3. 2. El mero chingón : Mexicanness at large

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för mediestudier

   Author : Valeria Villegas; [2013]
   Keywords : drugs film latsploitation corridos Mexicanness narcotelenovelas melodrama;

   Abstract : This thesis explores the discourse of Mexicanness and its relation to the moving image, pointing to the intellectual discussion it has been subject to since the beginning of the twentieth century. Further, it takes narcoculture as a relevant and recent phenomenon that has the capacity of confronting and reformulating Mexicanness by virtue of its hybridity. READ MORE

4. 3. Terms of endearment in American Soap Operas : A corpus study of honey, sweetheart and darling

   University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk och litteratur, SOL

   Author : Henric Martinger; [2013]
   Keywords : corpus; benevolent sexism; darling; honey; relationships; soap opera; sweetheart; terms of endearment;

   Abstract : This thesis investigates three terms of endearment in soap operas, namely honey, sweetheart and darling. The purpose is to determine how these terms are used and in what context. 200 tokens were taken from the Corpus of American Soap Operas which contains 10 different soaps. READ MORE