Stylistic Approaches to Pop Culture

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Christoph Schubert (University of Vechta, Germany) Valentin Werner (University of Bamberg, Germany)

Stylistic Approaches to Pop Culture

Christoph Schubert (University of Vechta, Germany), Valentin Werner (University of Bamberg, Germany)

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Routledge
27 May 2024

Sociolinguistics; Popular culture; Media studies

Series: Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Stylistics

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.

Edited by: Christoph Schubert (University of Vechta Germany), Valentin Werner (University of Bamberg, Germany)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9780367707316
ISBN 10: 0367707314
Series: Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Stylistics
Pages: 258
Publication Date: 27 May 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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).

Reviews for Stylistic Approaches to Pop Culture

"""With its multifarious topics discussed and various methodological and stylistic approaches taken...Christoph Schubert and Valentin Werner’s volume will certainly be of much interest and inspiration to colleagues as well as students across linguistic disciplines, literary studies, media studies and cultural studies, equipping them with a range of tools for unlocking topical, multimodal and genre-specific access points to pop cultural linguistics and stylistics."" - Monika Kirner-Ludwig, University of Innsbruck, English Language and Linguistics ""In all, Werner and Schubert’s new collection is a welcome addition to the growing volume of work on pop cultural linguistics and...is sure to be a popular addition to many an academic library or personal bookshelf for years to come."" - Paul J. Flanagan, University of Chester, Style ""Stylistic Approaches to Pop Culture is a well-edited anthology that sheds new light on stylistic perspectives to the study of the language of pop culture. It is a must-read for anyone interested in the intersection of language and popular culture."" - Joe Trotta, University of Gothenburg, Anglistik"