“That’s the game, yo”: Stereotype and Identity in The Wire
In David Simon’s The Wire (HBO, 2002-2008), stereotypes play a crucial role in the characters’ definition and assertion of their own identity. In the gangsters’ dialect, stereotypes are displayed in the form of fixed locutions and are a structural part of discourse. This paper focuses on the gangste...
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| Language: | English |
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Groupe de Recherche Identités et Cultures
2012-05-01
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/tvseries/1138 |