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Context. Linguistics and pop culture: setting the scene(s) / Valentin Werner -- Pop culture and linguistics: is that, like, a thing now? / Joe Trotta -- Comics. Pardon my French, and German, and Spanish: (mis)speaking in tongues in Marvel comics / Shane Walshe -- Linguistic discourse in web comics: extending conversation and narrative into alt-text and hidden comics / Frank Bramlett -- Music and lyrics. Pop culture and the globalization of non-standard varieties of English: Jamaican creole in German reggae subculture / Michael Westphal -- "Britpop is a thing, damn it": on British attitudes toward American English and an Americanized singing style / Lisa Jansen -- TV and movies. Variation in movies and television programs: the impact of corpus sampling / Marcia Veirano Pinto -- Verbal humor in crime drama television: a cognitive-linguistic approach to popular TV series / Christoph Schubert -- Pop meets EFI. An analysis of pop songs for teaching English as a foreign language: bridging the gap between corpus analysis and teaching practice / Theresa Summer -- Song lyrics: from multi-dimensional analysis to the foreign language classroom / Patricia Bértoli -- (Im)politeness rituals in The young pope and teaching pragmatics / Silvia Bruti -- Epilogue: Analyzing pop culture / Monika Bednarek

This collection showcases the unique potential of stylistic approaches for better understanding the multifaceted nature of pop culture discourse. As its point of departure, the book takes the notion of pop culture as a phenomenon characterized by the interaction of linguistic signs with other modes such as imagery and music to examine a diverse range of genres through the lens of stylistics. Each section is grouped around thematic lines, looking at literary fiction, telecinematic discourse, music and lyrics, as well as cartoons and video games. The12 chapters analyze different forms of media through five central strands of stylistics, from sociolinguistic, pragmatic, cognitive, multimodal, to corpus-based approaches. In drawing on these various stylistic frameworks and applying them across genres and modes, the contributions offer readers deeper insights into the role of scripted and performed language in social representation and identity construction, thereby highlighting the affordances of stylistics research in studying pop cultural texts. This volume is of particular interest to students and researchers in stylistics, linguistics, literary studies, media studies, and cultural studies.

"This collection showcases the unique potential of stylistic approaches for better understanding the multifaceted nature of pop culture discourse. As its point of departure, the book takes the notion of pop culture as a phenomenon characterized by the interaction of linguistic signs with other modes such as imagery and music to examine a diverse range of genres through the lens of stylistics. Each section is grouped around thematic lines, looking at literary fiction, telecinematic discourse, music and lyrics, as well as cartoons and video games. The twelve chapters analyze different forms of media through five central strands of stylistics, from sociolinguistic, pragmatic, cognitive, multimodal, to corpus-based approaches. In drawing on these various stylistic frameworks and applying them across genres and modes, the contributions offer readers deeper insights into the role of scripted and performed language in social representation and identity construction, thereby highlighting the affordances of stylistics research in studying pop cultural texts. This volume is of particular interest to students and researchers in stylistics, linguistics, literary studies, media studies, and cultural studies"--