Full Description
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 12 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.
Contents
Introduction
1 Zooming in: stylistic approaches to pop culture
Valentin Werner and Christoph Schubert
Part I: Pop fiction
2 Misdirection (re)strategizing in Robinson's A Dedicated Man
Christiana Gregoriou
3 From pop fiction to televisual adaptation: a corpus-stylistic approach to Dead until Dark and True Blood
Rocío Montoro
Part II: Telecinematic discourse
4 Communicative and linguistic features of reality show interactions: a case study of Love Island UK
Tatyana Karpenko-Seccombe
5 Ideological stance-taking in Jane the Virgin: stylistic effects of multimodality and code-switchingSusan Reichelt
6 Suspense in film dialogue: screening Quentin Tarantino's The Hateful Eight
Christoph Schubert
7 The art of turn-taking in movie phone call openingsChristian R. Hoffmann
Part III: Pop music and lyrics
8 The Arctic Monkeys live at the Royal Albert Hall: investigating Turner's "lounge singer shimmer"
Lisa Jansen and Anika Gerfer
9 "Guess who's back, back again": stylistic development in Eminem's lyrics
Valentin Werner
Part IV: Cartoons and video games
10 New York City dialect, speech acts, and anti-blackness in Winsor McCay's Little Nemo in Slumberland
Cecelia Cutler
11 The stylistic journey of a video game: a diachronic approach to multimodality in the Football Manager series
Dušan Stamenković
12 Stylistic approaches to pop culture: an afterword
Michael Toolan
