| Popis: |
This project explores the working class character Roseanne Conner—the fictional matriarch of Roseanne. Studying Roseanne’s role as a working class protagonist will intersect theories present Sociolinguists and New Working Class to analyze Roseanne’s language in its written and spoken form. Specifically, isolating written occurrences of the variant g-dropping (Fischer, 1958) will facilitate linguistic exploration and how spoken language characterizes working class individuals and the stereotypes embedded in working class speech. Audience Design Theory (Bell, 1984; Bell & Johnson, 1997) will discern if and how circumstances influence Roseanne’s use of careful or casual speech. Theories in New Working Class studies will contextualize the findings by providing historical features shaping the current definition of working class, while encouraging the interdisciplinary approach used in this study. Using other working class protagonist in earlier comedies will draw slight comparisons, ultimately to demonstrate how the protagonist brings agency to her character to present a positive representation of the working class. |
