Journal of Language and Pop Culture
Valentin Werner | Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, Germany | journaloflanguageandpopculture
gmail.comThe 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 and film, comics and cartoons, as well as video games and social media.
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://twitter.com/JLPopCulture
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Subscription rates
All prices for print + online include postage/handling.
| Online-only | Print + online | ||
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| Volume 1 (2025): 2 issues; ca. 300 pp. | EUR |
EUR |
Individuals may apply for a special online-only subscription rate of EUR
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Submission
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.
Submissions should be prepared in line with the journal guidelines.
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 journaloflanguageandpopculturegmail.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 journaloflanguageandpopculturegmail.com
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