Stylistic Approaches to Pop Culture

This collection explores the potential of stylistic approaches to understand pop culture discourse through the interaction of linguistic signs with imagery and music. It examines literary fiction, telecinematic discourse, music, lyrics, cartoons, and video games through five central strands of stylistics, offering insights into the role of language in social representation and identity construction.

Format: Hardback
Length: 258 pages
Publication date: 17 August 2022
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

This collection showcases the remarkable potential of stylistic approaches to enhance our understanding of the multifaceted nature of pop culture discourse. As its starting point, the book adopts the notion of pop culture as a phenomenon characterized by the interplay 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 organized around thematic lines, exploring literary fiction, telecinematic discourse, music and lyrics, as well as cartoons and video games. The 12 chapters delve into various forms of media through five central strands of stylistics, including sociolinguistic, pragmatic, cognitive, multimodal, and corpus-based approaches. By employing these diverse stylistic frameworks and applying them across genres and modes, the contributions provide readers with deeper insights into the role of scripted and performed language in social representation and identity construction. Thus, this volume serves as a valuable resource for students and researchers in stylistics, linguistics, literary studies, media studies, and cultural studies.

Weight: 660g
Dimension: 229 x 152 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367707309