Stylistic Approaches to Pop Culture (Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Stylistics)

By: Christoph Schubert

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Synopsis: 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.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 258 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9781000619232
Related ISBNs:: 9780367707309, 9780367707316, 9781003147718
Publisher:: Taylor and Francis
Date of Addition:: 08/10/22
Copyrighted By:: selection and editorial matter, Christoph Schubert and Valentin Werner
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Language Arts
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Christoph Schubert
Edited by:: Valentin Werner