Figures
1.1What a whiteboard in the writers’ room might look like (author’s own photo of a whiteboard for Shameless, hanging in the room dedicated to screenwriting at the Warner Bros. Studio Tour Hollywood)
5.1Non-English dialogue mixed with English dialogue (The Shield)
5.3Example of voice-over dialogue by a character (Nurse Jackie)
5.8Example of characters speaking in unison (My Name Is Earl)
5.9Example of characters speaking in overlap (It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia)
5.14Sorted concordance lines for apologize in SydTV-Std (including speaker names)
5.15Concordance plot for the word mistake in the Gilmore Girls episode
6.1Jane Espenson (left) and the author (right) after the interview (author’s own photo)
7.2Twenty instances where hi is used as a greeting, selected from twenty different TV series
7.3Twenty-five random instances of here, selected from twenty-five different TV series
7.5Twenty-five random instances of doctor, Miss, Mr, Mrs, Sir, with file names
8.2Collocates of ain’t in SydTV (MI3, 5:5, min f = 2; stat >= 9 [default])
9.2Word forms related to computer-mediated communication (SydTV)
11.1Responses for the statement My English teacher has used/shown examples from English-language TV series in the class-room