Publisher: John Benjamins
http://www.benjamins.com/

Journal Title: Journal of Language and Pop Culture
Volume Number: 1
Issue Number: 2
Issue Date: 20250805

Main Text:

2025. iii, 134 pp.

Table of Contents

Articles

“I am a fat ass but I’m also a bad ass”: Reconciling fat and fabulous on the neoliberal screen
Maeve Eberhardt | pp. 153–176

Language change and (im)politeness in film discourse: Evidence from the Corpus of Greek Film Dialogue
Dionysis Goutsos | pp. 177–202

Degree of foreign accent and contrastive characterization: Russian characters in American cinema
Polina Kashkarova | pp. 203–225

“Then we’re just two dudes driving around”: Stand-up comedians’ exploitation of relational ambiguity in the Uber/Lyft chronotope
Camilla Vásquez & Melike Akay | pp. 226–247

Good and evil in the voices of fictional characters: A perception study
Jens Kjeldgaard-Christiansen, Zac Boyd, Míša Hejná & Mark Ølholm Eaton | pp. 248–275
Book reviews

M. Bednarek. 2023. Language and characterisation in television series: A corpus-informed approach to the construction of social identity in the media
Reviewed by Christian R. Hoffmann | pp. 276–280

J. Walsh, D. Caldwell & J. Jureidini. 2024. Evaluative language in sports discourse: Crowds, coaches and commentators
Reviewed by Anastasios Vogiatzis | pp. 281–286

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
Pragmatics
Sociolinguistics