Stylistic Approaches to Pop Culture

This collection showcases the unique potential of stylistic approaches for better understanding the multifaceted nature of pop culture discourse.

Christoph Schubert is Full Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Vechta, Germany. His major research areas are stylistics, discourse studies, pragmatics, and text linguistics. His publications comprise contributions to outlets such as the Journal of Literary Semantics, Journal of Language and Politics, Discourse Studies, Journal of Pragmatics, and Text & Talk. He is author of a monograph on the linguistic constitution of space in descriptive texts (2009), co-editor of the volume Variational Text Linguistics (2016), co-author of the textbook Introduction to Discourse Studies (2018), and co-editor of a special issue of Discourse, Context & Media on cohesion in multimodal discourse (2021). Valentin Werner is Associate Professor of English and Historical Linguistics at the University of Bamberg, Germany. His research areas comprise applied linguistics, variational linguistics, and media linguistics, as well as stylistics. In addition to papers published in journals such as Corpora, English Language & Linguistics, Linguistics, and Text & Talk, he has (co-)edited the volumes Pop Culture in Language Education: Theory, Research, Practice (Routledge, 2021), The Language of Pop Culture (Routledge, 2018), and Re-Assessing the Present Perfect (2016), as well as a special issue of the International Journal of Corpus Linguistics on telecinematic language (2021).

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 Stamenkovi- 12 Stylistic approaches to pop culture: an afterword Michael Toolan