The Language of Pop Culture

ISBN-13: 9780367593414 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 272 str.

Valentin Werner

Opis

This volume showcases linguistic approaches to the study of pop culture and their potential to inform linguistic theory building and analytical frameworks. Eamples from a range of pop culture registers provide a description of these forms through linguistic study and outline methodological issues involved in applying linguistic approac

Spis treści

Part I: Context  1. Linguistics and pop culture: Setting the scene(s)   Valentin Werner   2. Pop culture and linguistics – is that, like, a thing now?   Joe Trotta   Part II: Comics  3. Pardon my French... and German… and Spanish...: (Mis)speaking in tongues in Marvel comics   Shane Walshe   4. Linguistic discourse in web comics: Extending conversation and narrative into alt-text and hidden comics   Frank Bramlett   Part III: Music and Lyrics   5. Pop culture and the globalization of non-standard varieties of English: Jamaican Creole in German reggae subculture   Michael Westphal   6. "Britpop is a thing, damn it": On British attitudes toward American English and an Americanized singing style   Lisa Jansen   Part IV: TV and Movies   7. Variation in movies and television programs: The impact of corpus sampling   Marcia Veirano Pinto   8. Verbal humor in crime drama television: A cognitive-linguistic approach to popular TV series   Christoph Schubert   Part V: Pop meets EFL   9. An analysis of pop songs for teaching English as a foreign language: Bridging the gap between corpus analysis and teaching practice   Theresa Summer   10. Song lyrics: From Multi-Dimensional Analysis to the foreign language classroom   Patricia Bértoli   11. (Im)politeness rituals in The Young Pope and teaching pragmatics   Silvia Bruti   Epilogue   12. Analyzing pop culture   Monika Bednarek

O autorze

Valentin Werner is assistant professor of English and Historical Linguistics at the University of Bamberg. His recent publications include two books on the present perfect (2014, 2016), a co-edited special issue of the International Journal of Learner Corpus Research (2018), and contributions to journals such as English Language and Linguistics, English World-Wide, and Corpora.