Linguistics and the study of comics / 
edited by Frank Bramlett. 
 - xiii, 310 pages :  illustrations ;  23 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/> List of tables and figures --  Acknowledgements --  Notes on contributors --  Introduction /  Image schemas and conceptual metaphor in action comics /  Creating humor in Gary Larson's far side cartoons using interpersonal and textual metafunctions /  Metaphors and topoi of H1N1 (swine flu) political cartoons: a cross-cultural analysis /  Comics, linguistics, and visual language: the past and future of a field /  Constructing meaning: verbalizing the unspeakable in Turkish political cartoons /  Plurilingualism in Francophone comics /  To and fro Dutch Dutch: diachronic language variation in Flemish comics /  Linguistic codes and character identity in afro samurai /  Pocho politics: language, identity, and discourse in Lalo Alcaraz's la cucaracha --  The use of English in the Swedish-language comic strip rocky /  'Ah, laddie, did ye really think I'd let a foine broth of a boy such as yerself get splattered ...?': representations of Irish English speech in the Marvel universe /  Conclusion /  Index of language varieties --  Subject index.  Frank Bramlett --  Elisabeth Potsch and Robert F. Williams --  Richard Watson Todd --  Jill Hallett and Richard W. Hallett --  Neil Cohn --  Veronika Tzankova and Thecla Schiphorst --  Miriam Ben-Rafael and Eliezer Ben-Rafael --  Gert Meesters --  Frank Bramlett --  Kristy Beers Fägersten --  Shane Walshe --  Frank Bramlett -- 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0230362826 9780230362826 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2012009554 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Comic books, strips, etc.<br/>Comic books, strips, etc.--Cross-cultural studies<br/>Comic books, strips, etc.--History and criticism.<br/>Pragmatics
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PN6714  / .L56 2012 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>741.59