Formulaic sequences in English TV series

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Tezin Türü: Yüksek Lisans

Tezin Yürütüldüğü Kurum: Bursa Uludağ Üniversitesi, EĞİTİM BİLİMLERİ ENSTİTÜSÜ, Türkiye

Tezin Onay Tarihi: 2010

Tezin Dili: İngilizce

Öğrenci: Mustafa Aksar

Açık Arşiv Koleksiyonu: AVESİS Açık Erişim Koleksiyonu

Özet:

This study aims to investigate to what extent formulaic sequences are used in English TV series and which type of formulaic sequence is most frequently used.This study uses scripts of "How I Met Your Mother" which has 5.706.789 fans in a forum website and can be seen in our country. Scripts of 82 episodes of 4 seasons were used as corpus. Having downloaded the scripts of the episodes, a corpus was formed and a frequency analysis was applied on it by using a website, http://www.lextutor.ca/, which belongs to Michael Cobb. Function words such as prepositions, pronouns, and auxiliaries were extracted from the list gathered via frequency analysis and the most frequent 9 content words were picked. It was noted that these words included verbs, nouns, and adjectives equally. Afterwards, a concordance analysis was applied the corpus and the target words were analyzed. The results also classified according to FS types by using various check instruments such as dictionaries, native-speaker consultation and inter-rater reliability.In the light of these results, it has been found out that English TV series are rich in formulaic sequences. Accordingly, it can be asserted that English TV series can be used as an educational material. Furthermore, it has been detected that the most frequent formulaic sequence type in the corpus is "collocation." The current study might be adapted to different TV series; however, it should be noted that the results might not be the same.