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Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2020 14:50:55
From: Valentin Werner [valentin.werner at uni-bamberg.de]
Subject: Stylistic Approaches to Pop Culture

 
Stylistic Approaches to Pop Culture 

Date: 19-Mar-2020 - 20-Mar-2020 
Location: Vechta, Germany 
Contact: Valentin Werner Christoph Schubert 
Contact Email: valentin.werner at uni-bamberg.de 
Meeting URL: https://www.uni-vechta.de/anglistik/lehrende/schubert-christoph/stylistic-approaches-to-pop-culture/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; Ling & Literature; Pragmatics; Sociolinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Meeting Description: 

Pop culture appears in diverse textual manifestations, including television
series and films, song lyrics, video games, or graphic novels and comics.
Although there is no universally accepted definition of pop culture,
prototypical texts belong to globalized mainstream media, fulfill the
commercial function of mass entertainment, and are dominated by American
English. However, despite their international reception and sociocultural
impact, and despite the fact that pop culture seems to have overcome its
traditional “low culture” status, relevant texts are still clearly
underresearched in linguistics. Style is here considered as a motivated choice
of specific linguistic items that fulfill communicative functions in
accordance with contextual parameters such as author, genre, or discursive
context. Correspondingly, this conference intends to investigate stylistic
features that contribute to the mass appeal of pop cultural texts, arguably
representing the most central type of performed language today. It will also
take into account that contemporary pop culture manifestations are genuinely
multimodal (combining text and music, text and image, etc.), so that further
layers of meaning interact with the verbal discourse.
 

Conference Schedule: 

Thursday, 19 March 2020

Keynote 1: Corpora, Cognition, and Characterization: Inferring Character from
Subtitles in Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy 
Dan McIntyre (University of Huddersfield)

Session 1: Telecinematic Discourse

“Hello…? Who is this?” – The Art of Turn-Taking in Movie Telephone Calls
Christian Hoffmann (University of Augsburg)

>From D’oh! to Don’t fuck it up! The Evolution of Swearing in Television
Catchphrases
Kristy Beers Fägersten (Södertörn University) & Monika Bednarek (The
University of Sydney)

A Mixed-Method Analysis of Autism Spectrum Disorder Representation in
Fictional Television
Susan Reichelt (University of Greifswald)

A Corpus-Stylistic Analysis of Reality Speak: A Case Study of Love Island UK
(2018)
Tatyana Karpenko-Seccombe (University of Huddersfield)

Session 2: Computer-mediated Pop Discourse

Embodied Intermediality? Multimodal Metaphors and Blending in Animated GIFs
Janina Wildfeuer (University of Groningen)

The Stylistic Journey of a Video Game: Multimodality and the Football Manager
Series (2005–2019)
Dušan Stamenković (University of Niš)

Friday, 20 March 2020

Keynote 2: From Scribble to Crime Novel: A Stylistic Approach to the Crime
Fiction Writing Process
Christiana Gregoriou (University of Leeds)

Session 3: Cartoons and Applied Stylistics

Styling New York Accents in Early 20th Century Print Cartoons
Cecilia Cutler (City University of New York)

Corpus Stylistics and Pop Culture: A Perfect Marriage for Degree Essays in
English Linguistics?
Joe Trotta (University of Gothenburg)

Session 4: Pop Music and Lyrics

Performance and Perception: Exploring Linguistic Stylization in English Pop
and Rock
Lisa Jansen (University of Münster)

Pop Lyrics: A Corpus-stylistic Analysis
Valentin Werner (University of Bamberg)

“Rainy Days dem Gone” – Crossing and the Stylization of Jamaican Creole in
Reggae and Dancehall Music
Anika Gerfer (University of Münster)





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