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Beers Fägersten, Kristy. Language Play in Contemporary Swedish Comic Strips. Language Play and Creativity. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, 2020. Added by: joachim (22/09/2023, 19:59) Last edited by: joachim (22/09/2023, 20:06) |
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| Resource type: Book Language: en: English DOI: 10.1515/9781501505119 ID no. (ISBN etc.): 9781501514319 BibTeX citation key: BeersFagersten2020 Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details  |
Categories: General Keywords: Humor, Language, Sweden Creators: Beers Fägersten Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton (Berlin, Boston) |
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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. |