Language Play in Contemporary Swedish Comic Strips / Kristy Beers Fägersten.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Beers Fägersten, Kristy, Author.

Series:

Language play and creativity ; v. 3.

Language Play and Creativity ; 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Swedish wit and humor, Pictorial.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XI, 203 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Acknowledgements

Contents

List of Figures

1. Language play as humor in comic strips

2. Vällkamm to Sviden

3. Schwädu hupp jöördi hoo

4. Gracias de nada!

5. In English, please

6. Are you completely @#ᴥ fucking crazy?

7. Face the facts

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jun 2020)

ISBN:

9781501505119

1501505114

9781501505058

150150505X

OCLC:

1158127958