Journal of Language and Pop Culture

Editors
ORCID logoValentin Werner | University of Bamberg, Germany | journaloflanguageandpopculture at gmail.com
Paul Flanagan | University of Chester, UK
ORCID logoMie Hiramoto | National University of Singapore, Singapore
Associate Editors
ORCID logoDaniel Duncan | Newcastle University, UK
ORCID logoJohanna Gerwin | Kiel University, Germany
ORCID logoDionysis Goutsos | National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
ORCID logoJane Hodson | University of Sheffield, UK
ORCID logoMonika Konert-Panek | University of Warsaw, Poland
Christoph Schubert | University of Vechta, Germany
Book Review Editor
ORCID logoAnastasia G. Stamou | Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

The Journal of Language and Pop Culture (JLPop) provides the prime outlet for the growing amount of research in pop cultural linguistics, the study of language use in pop culture data. Pop culture here is conceptualized in a broad sense to include artifacts with a commercial, entertainment-based purpose that are mediated and represent largely fictional, scripted/performed content. This includes pop music, television, comics and cartoons, video games, social media, as well as other forms of entertainment and trends that are widely accessible in mainstream society.

The journal is open to contributions from all linguistic subfields that engage with pop culture and performed language, including sociolinguistics, pragmatics, stylistics, corpus linguistics, conversation analysis, (critical) discourse analysis, media linguistics, and applied linguistics/language education. Multimodal and interdisciplinary approaches are especially encouraged and, while English is typically seen as the primary language of pop culture, studies are invited on all languages.

JLPop also produces special issues and publishes its articles Online First.

Social media presence: https://x.com/JLPopCulture

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ISSN: 2950-578X | E-ISSN: 2950-5798
DOI logo
https://doi.org/10.1075/jlpop
Latest articles

29 November 2024

  • Degree of foreign accent and contrastive characterization : Russian characters in American cinema
    Polina Kashkarova

    • 12 November 2024

  • N. Chepinchikj . 2022. Interactional approach to cinematic discourse: How do Woody Allen’s characters talk?
    Reviewed by Susan Reichelt

    • 29 October 2024

  • Digital creativity and ecolinguistics : An analysis of Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade
    Locky Law

    • 25 October 2024

  • C. Fought &  K. Eisenhauer . 2022. Language and gender in children’s animated films: Exploring Disney and Pixar
    Reviewed by Atiqa Hachimi

    • 22 October 2024

  • A grammatical analysis of American and British pop music
    Ayano Shigeta-Watanabe

    • 21 October 2024

  • “The twain is crossing” : Overlapping ontologies in Gerwig’s Barbie (2023)
    Naomi Adam &  Paula Ghintuială

    • 4 October 2024

  • Pink rollers and fake tan : Counterhegemonic gender identity in the enregisterment of the Scouse bird persona
    Camila Montiel-McCann , Sofia Lampropoulou , Paul Cooper &  Rachel Byrne
    • IssuesOnline-first articles
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    Advisory Board
    ORCID logoMonika Bednarek | University of Sydney, Australia
    ORCID logoCecelia Cutler | City University of New York, USA
    Derek Denis | University of Toronto Mississauga, Canada
    ORCID logoSender Dovchin | Curtin University, Australia
    ORCID logoAtiqa Hachimi | University of Toronto Scarborough, Canada
    Christian R. Hoffmann | University of Augsburg, Germany
    ORCID logoLisa Jansen | University of Münster, Germany
    ORCID logoDaniela Landert | University of Heidelberg, Germany
    ORCID logoPatrice Larroque | University of Toulouse-Jean Jaurès, France
    ORCID logoYuhan Lin | Shenzhen University, China
    ORCID logoBarbra A. Meek | University of Michigan, USA
    ORCID logoThomas C. Messerli | University of Basel, Switzerland
    ORCID logoRocío Montoro | University of Granada, Spain
    ORCID logoAndrew Moody | University of Macau, Macau SAR
    ORCID logoHeiko Motschenbacher | Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway
    ORCID logoRaymond Pai | University of British Columbia, Canada
    ORCID logoRobin Queen | University of Michigan, USA
    ORCID logoSusan Reichelt | University of Konstanz, Germany
    ORCID logoChristina Sanchez-Stockhammer | Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany
    ORCID logoRoman Schneider | IDS Mannheim, Germany
    Joseph Trotta | University of Gothenburg, Sweden
    ORCID logoLuca Valleriani | Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
    ORCID logoJanina Wildfeuer | University of Groningen, the Netherlands
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    Authors wishing to submit articles for publication in JLPop are requested to do so through the journal’s online submission and manuscript tracking site. Please consult the Short Guide to EM for Authors before you submit your paper.

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    The length (all-inclusive) of the manuscripts should be as follows:
    Regular article: 7,500-8,500 words
    Book reviews: 1,500-2,000 words

    Please do not submit unsolicited book reviews. Please contact the book review editor at journaloflanguageandpopculture at gmail.com in case you are interested in writing a review.

    JLPop welcomes special issues on any topic within the remit of the journal. Please contact the editors to discuss your proposal.

    In case of problems with the submission site, please contact the editors at journaloflanguageandpopculture at gmail.com

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    Subjects

    Communication Studies

    Communication Studies

    Linguistics

    Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
    Discourse studies
    Pragmatics
    Applied linguistics

    Main BIC Subject

    CF: Linguistics

    Main BISAC Subject

    LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General