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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2020
• VerfasserIn: Beers Fägersten, Kristy,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Language Play and Creativity , 3
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XI, 203 p.)
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781501505119; 9783110696288; 9783110696271; 9783110659061; 9783110743166; 9783110704716; 9783110704518; 9783110704761; 9783110704563
• ISSN: 2363-7749
• DOI: 10.1515/9781501505119
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Kristy Beers Fägersten.

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.