36.2833, Books: The Language of Memes: Dancygier and Vandelanotte (2025)

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Subject: 36.2833, Books: The Language of Memes: Dancygier and Vandelanotte (2025)

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Date: 18-Sep-2025
From: Ellena Moriarty [rfsupport at cambridge.org]
Subject: The Language of Memes: Dancygier and Vandelanotte (2025)


Title: The Language of Memes
Subtitle: Patterns of Meaning Across Image and Text
Publication Year: 2025

Publisher: Cambridge University Press
           http://www.cambridge.org/linguistics
Book URL:
https://www.cambridge.org/ch/universitypress/subjects/languages-linguistics/cognitive-linguistics/language-memes-patterns-meaning-across-image-and-text?format=HB

Author(s): Barbara Dancygier, Lieven Vandelanotte

Hardback ISBN:  9781108844352 Pages:  266 Price: U.K. £ 100.00
Hardback ISBN:  9781108844352 Pages:  266 Price: Europe EURO 116.71
Hardback ISBN:  9781108844352 Pages:  266 Price: U.S. $ 130.00

Abstract:

Internet memes have been studied widely for their role in establishing
and maintaining social relationships, and shaping public opinion,
online. However, they are also a prominent and fast evolving
multimodal genre, one which calls for an in-depth linguistic analysis.
This book, the first of its kind, develops the analytical tools
necessary to describe and understand contemporary 'image-plus-text'
communication. It demonstrates how memes achieve meaning as multimodal
artifacts, how they are governed by specific rules of composition and
interpretation, and how such processes are driven by stance networks.
It also defines a family of multimodal constructions in which images
become structural components, while making language forms adjust to
the emerging multimodal rules. Through analysis of several meme types,
this approach defines the specificity of the memetic genre, describing
established types, but also accounting for creative forms. In
describing the 'grammar of memes', it provides a new model to approach
multimodal genres.

Written In: English (eng)



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