The Language of Pop Culture (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Werner, Valentin

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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 approaches.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Januar 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351685313
• Artikelnr.: 50916852

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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