31.1985, Books: Language Play in Contemporary Swedish Comic Strips: Beers Fägersten

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Subject: 31.1985, Books: Language Play in Contemporary Swedish Comic Strips: Beers Fägersten

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Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2020 15:14:44
From: Asja Kusnezowa [Asja.Kusnezowa at degruyter.com]
Subject: Language Play in Contemporary Swedish Comic Strips: Beers Fägersten

 


Title: Language Play in Contemporary Swedish Comic Strips 
Series Title: Language Play and Creativity  

Publication Year: 2020 
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
	   http://www.degruyter.com/mouton
	

Book URL: https://bit.ly/37jtGQR 


Author: Kristy Beers Fägersten

Hardback: ISBN:  9781501514319 Pages: 203 Price: U.S. $ 114.99


Abstract:

This book focuses on the unexplored context of contemporary Swedish comic
strips as sites of innovative linguistic practices, where humor is derived
from language play and creativity, often drawing from English and other
European languages as well as social and regional dialects of Swedish. The
overall purpose of the book is to highlight linguistic playfulness in Swedish
comic strips, as an example of practices as yet unobserved and unaccounted for
in theories of linguistic humor as applied to comics scholarship.

The book familiarizes the reader with the Swedish language and linguistic
culture as well as contemporary Swedish comic strips, with chapters focusing
on specific strategies of language play and linguistic humor, such as mocking
Swedish dialects and Swedish-accented foreign language usage, invoking English
language popular culture, swearing in multiple languages, and turn-final
code-switching to English to signal the punchline. 

The book will appeal to readers interested in humor, comics, or how linguistic
innovation, language play, and language contact each can further the modern
development of language, exemplified by the case of Swedish.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s): Swedish (swe)


Written In: English  (eng)

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