The Journal of Language and Pop Culture (JLPop)
Brand new journal on linguistic approaches to the language of pop culture. First issue 2025.
Editors-in-Chief: Valentin Werner, Mie Hiramoto, and Dr Paul Flanagan.
Webpage: benjamins.com/catalog/jlpop.
- A new Online First book review is available from the Journal of Language and Pop Culture: Alejandro Bolaños García-Escribano evaluates The Palgrave Handbook of Multilingualism and Language Varieties on Screen, edited by Irene Ranzato & Patrick Zabalbeascoa. OA access is available at lnkd.in/dyfkMb25
- A new issue of the Journal of Language and Pop Culture is now available (benjamins.com/catalog/jlpo...), featuring contributions as shown below. We invite submissions (including interdisciplinary ones) on a rolling basis- see the JLPop website for further information: benjamins.com/catalog/jlpop
- In the second of our two new articles over at JLPop Online First, Harald Spann & Thomas Wagner are "Tapping into the educational potential of pop songs in foreign language teaching through action research": www.jbe-platform.com/content/jour...
- In the first of two new articles on JLPop, in a perception study of video game characters, Jens Kjeldgaard-Christiansen et al. explore "Good and evil in the voices of fictional characters": www.jbe-platform.com/content/jour...
- NEW PUBLICATION ALERT! The fantastic Dionysis Goutsos take a diachronic look at (im)politeness in Greek film discourse DOI: doi.org/10.1075/jlpo...
- Reposted by The Journal of Language and Pop Culture (JLPop)Introducing my new project… Your Wrong (yourwrong.co.uk). It’s all about the language rules and judgements that appear in different forms of popular culture. Films, series, podcasts, music, books, even graffiti! I’d love your help to find examples!
- Reposted by The Journal of Language and Pop Culture (JLPop)Online panel on language in fictional film and television on 19 February
