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Tytuł: | Stereotyping Scotland: Groundskeeper Willie’s illocutionary acts in The Simpsons |
Autorzy: | Virdis, Daniela Francesca |
Słowa kluczowe: | Groundskeeper Willie The Simpsons Lindsay’s (1997) list of national-ethnic Scottish stereotypes stereotypes Searle’s (1976) taxonomy of illocutionary acts pragmatics |
Data wydania: | 2021 |
Data dodania: | 12-kwi-2021 |
Wydawca: | The University of Bialystok |
Źródło: | Crossroads. A Journal of English Studies 32 (1/2021), pp. 16-35 |
Abstrakt: | This article explores the Scottish character of Groundskeeper Willie in the American animated sitcom The Simpsons with a pragmatic and social-psychological approach. It firstly introduces Willie’s linguistic and visual features, the sample of three episodes the analysis is based on, Scottish stereotypes in Lindsay’s (1997) sociological research, and Searle’s (1976) taxonomy of illocutionary acts (representatives or assertives, directives, commissives, expressives and declarations). Secondly, the turns uttered by the groundskeeper in the sample are classified by applying Searle’s taxonomy, and his illocutionary acts are examined in their contexts and compared with the list of national-ethnic Scottish stereotypes compiled by Lindsay. This study demonstrates that Willie’s illocutionary acts and the stereotypes they convey depict him as a figure characterised by positive traits; nevertheless, the responses his illocutionary acts are met with not only counter his pleasant aspects, but also ultimately represent the Scottish groundskeeper as a ludicrous victim of his American fellow townspeople. |
Afiliacja: | University of Cagliari, Italy |
Nota biograficzna: | Daniela Francesca Virdis is an Associate Professor of English Language and Translation at the University of Cagliari. She is a steering group member of the International Ecolinguistics Association. She is the author of Serialised Gender: A Linguistic Analysis of Femininities in Contemporary TV Series and Media (2012), which was awarded the Italian Association of English Studies Book Prize 2013. Her current research interests include ecostylistics and metaphor theory. |
E-mail: | dfvirdis@unica.it |
Opis: | An earlier version of this article was published as: Virdis, D. F. 2012. Friendliness, aggressiveness and coarseness: Scottish Groundskeeper Willie’s linguistic features in The Simpsons. NAWA: Journal of Language and Communication 6.1: 127-150. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/11320/10662 |
DOI: | 10.15290/CR.2021.32.1.02 |
e-ISSN: | 2300-6250 |
metadata.dc.identifier.orcid: | 0000-0003-2819-3847 |
Typ Dokumentu: | Article |
metadata.dc.rights.uri: | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ |
Właściciel praw: | Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0); |
Występuje w kolekcji(ach): | Crossroads. A Journal of English Studies, 2021, Issue 32 |
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