TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bramlett,Frank
TI  - Linguistics and the study of comics
SN  - 0230362826
AV  - PN6714 .L56 2012
U1  - 741.59 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Basingstoke, Hampshire, New York
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - Comic books, strips, etc
KW  - Cross-cultural studies
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Pragmatics
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; List of tables and figures --; Acknowledgements --; Notes on contributors --; Introduction; Frank Bramlett --; Image schemas and conceptual metaphor in action comics; Elisabeth Potsch and Robert F. Williams --; Creating humor in Gary Larson's far side cartoons using interpersonal and textual metafunctions; Richard Watson Todd --; Metaphors and topoi of H1N1 (swine flu) political cartoons: a cross-cultural analysis; Jill Hallett and Richard W. Hallett --; Comics, linguistics, and visual language: the past and future of a field; Neil Cohn --; Constructing meaning: verbalizing the unspeakable in Turkish political cartoons; Veronika Tzankova and Thecla Schiphorst --; Plurilingualism in Francophone comics; Miriam Ben-Rafael and Eliezer Ben-Rafael --; To and fro Dutch Dutch: diachronic language variation in Flemish comics; Gert Meesters --; Linguistic codes and character identity in afro samurai; Frank Bramlett --; Pocho politics: language, identity, and discourse in Lalo Alcaraz's la cucaracha --; The use of English in the Swedish-language comic strip rocky; Kristy Beers Fägersten --; '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; Shane Walshe --; Conclusion; Frank Bramlett --; Index of language varieties --; Subject index
ER  -