Tense and Aspect in TV Dramas, The Newsroom and Suits
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This study analyzed the scripts of two TV dramas, The Newsroom and Suits, to examine the distribution of tense-aspect constructions. It followed the discourse perspective on pedagogical grammar which includes pursuance of i) discourse-level grammar over sentence-level grammar; and ii) communicative grammar for spoken discourse over the typical grammar based on written discourse. The scripts were extracted from the DVD subtitles so that they can be mostly composed of spoken lines. The time segments and scene descriptions were removed. All 3,392 verb phrases were manually annotated for twelve combinations of tense and aspect and more varieties. 78% of all tense-aspect constructions were simple tenses carried by main verbs; 91%, when the simple tenses carried by Aux were included. Tense realization by non-typical forms was prominent in the future tense. For some modal verbs, miscellaneous modals occurred more frequently than core modals. While the main verbs far exceeded the modals in terms of tense-carrying frequency, the latter was more crucial in delivering important details. It is proposed that L2 communicative grammar focus on a smaller subset of more practical tense-aspect constructions and spoken language features. Further drama-corpus studies for L2 learning purposes are recommended for diversified topics in larger scopes.
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This study analyzed the scripts of two TV dramas, The Newsroom and Suits, to examine the distribution of tense-aspect constructions. It followed the discourse perspective on pedagogical grammar which includes pursuance of i) discourse-level grammar over sentence-level grammar; and ii) communicative grammar for spoken discourse over the typical grammar based on written discourse. The scripts were extracted from the DVD subtitles so that they can be mostly composed of spoken lines. The time segments and scene descriptions were removed. All 3,392 verb phrases were manually annotated for twelve combinations of tense and aspect and more varieties. 78% of all tense-aspect constructions were simple tenses carried by main verbs; 91%, when the simple tenses carried by Aux were included. Tense realization by non-typical forms was prominent in the future tense. For some modal verbs, miscellaneous modals occurred more frequently than core modals. While the main verbs far exceeded the modals in terms of tense-carrying frequency, the latter was more crucial in delivering important details. It is proposed that L2 communicative grammar focus on a smaller subset of more practical tense-aspect constructions and spoken language features. Further drama-corpus studies for L2 learning purposes are recommended for diversified topics in larger scopes.
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