ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|45 pages
Context
part II|45 pages
Comics
chapter 3|23 pages
Pardon My French … and German … and Spanish …
chapter 4|20 pages
Linguistic Discourse in Web Comics
part III|43 pages
Music and Lyrics
chapter 5|21 pages
Pop Culture and the Globalization of Non-standard Varieties of English
chapter 6|20 pages
“Britpop Is a Thing, Damn It”
part IV|47 pages
TV and Movies
chapter 8|22 pages
Verbal Humor in Crime Drama Television
part V|68 pages
Pop Meets EFL
chapter 9|23 pages
An Analysis of Pop Songs for Teaching English as a Foreign Language
part |11 pages
Epilogue