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Language Play in Contemporary Swedish Comic Strips (Paperback): Kristy Beers Fagersten

Language Play in Contemporary Swedish Comic Strips (Paperback)

Kristy Beers Fagersten

Series: Language Play and Creativity

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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.

General

Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton
Country of origin: United States
Series: Language Play and Creativity
Release date: July 2022
First published: 2020
Authors: Kristy Beers Fagersten
Dimensions: 230 x 155mm (L x W)
Format: Paperback - Paperback (DE)
Pages: 214
ISBN-13: 978-1-5015-2718-0
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Sociolinguistics
Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > General
LSN: 1-5015-2718-5
Barcode: 9781501527180

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