'Big Brother' Germany and Spain: a Linguistic Characterization from a Theory of Register

  • Pau Bertomeu Pi Universitat de València

Résumé

The aim of this paper is to justify the suitability of using Big Brother as a means of addressing the study of colloquial register in German and Spanish. Drawing on the conceptualization of register as a continuum (Briz Gómez 2010), in the following pages we examine an unpublished bilingual corpus consisting of conversations in daily routine contexts. The analysis of the data reveals that the situational features are highly colloquial in the interactions studied, and shows a specific display of the following parameters: control on language production, lexical in/accuracy, deixis, un/familiar treatment, syntax, extra/linguistic contextualization and tone. In conclusion, this qualitative study sheds light on the language used in conversations in reality television and lays the foundation to consider Big Brother an adequate corpus for analyzing colloquial register in both languages.

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Publiée
2020-07-24
Comment citer
Bertomeu Pi P. (2020). ’Big Brother’ Germany and Spain: a Linguistic Characterization from a Theory of Register. Revista de Filología Alemana, 28, 125-146. https://doi.org/10.5209/rfal.70052
Rubrique
Artículos. Estudios lingüísticos