Werner The Language of Pop Culture

Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-1-351-68530-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 282 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Linguistics

This collection brings together contributions from both leading and emerging scholars in one comprehensive volume to showcase the richness of linguistic approaches to the study of pop culture and their potential to inform linguistic theory building and analytical frameworks. The book features examples from a dynamic range of pop culture registers, including lyrics, the language of fictional TV series, comics, and musical subcultures, as a means of both providing a rigorous and robust description of these forms through the lens of linguistic study but also in outlining methodological issues involved in applying linguistic approaches. The volume also explores the didactic potential of pop culture, looking at the implementation of pop culture traditions in language learning settings. This collection offers unique insights into the interface of linguistic study and the broader paradigm of pop culture scholarship, making this an ideal resource for graduate students and researchers in applied linguistics, English language, media studies, cultural studies, and discourse analysis.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Werner, Valentin

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1: Context

1. Linguistics and Pop Culture: An Introduction (Valentin Werner, University of Bamberg, Germany)

2. Linguistics and Pop Culture, is that, like, a thing now? (Joe Trotta, University of Gothenburg, Sweden)

Part 2: Comics

3. Pardon my French… and German… and Irish…: (Mis)speaking in tongues in Marvel comics (Shane Walshe, University of Zurich, Switzerland)

4. Linguistic Discourse in Web Comics: Extending Conversation and Narrative into Alt-text and Hidden Comics (Frank Bramlett, University of Omaha, USA)

Part 3: Music and Lyrics

5. Pop Culture and the Global Spread of Non-Standardized Varieties of English: Jamaican Creole in German Reggae Subculture (Michael Westphal, University of Münster, Germany)

6. Music Performances and Accent Perception (Lisa Jansen, University of Münster, Germany)

Part 4: TV and Movies

7. Variation in Movies and Television Programs: The Impact of Corpus Sampling (Marcia Veirano Pinto, São Paulo Catholic University, Brazil)

8. Verbal Humour in Crime Drama Television: Pragmatic and Cognitive-Linguistic Dimensions of Popular TV Series (Christopher Schubert, University of Vechta, Germany)

Part 5: Pop Meets EFL

9. An Analysis of Pop Songs for Teaching English as a Foreign Language (Theresa Summer, University of Würzburg, Germany)

10. Song Lyrics: From Multidimensional Analysis to EFL Classroom (Patricia Bértoli, Rio de Janeiro State University, Brazil)

11. Investigating (Im)politeness Rituals in TV Series to Teach Interactional Dynamics (Silvia Bruti, University of Pisa, Italy)

12. Epilogue: Analyzing Pop Culture (Monika Bednarek, University of Sydney, Australia)

Über Autor(innen)

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.