The Language of Pop Culture

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.

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