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Title: Language Play in Contemporary Swedish Comic Strips
Condition: New
Author: Kristy Beers Fägersten
Format: Hardback
ISBN-10: 1501514318
EAN: 9781501514319
ISBN: 9781501514319
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Genre: Language & Reference
Release Date: 08/06/2020
Description: 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.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 230mm
Item Length: 155mm
Item Weight: 433g
Book Series: Language Play and Creativity [LPC]
Release Year: 2020

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