Linguistics and the Study of Comics

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Introduction....Pages 1-12
Image Schemas and Conceptual Metaphor in Action Comics....Pages 13-36
Creating Humor in Gary Larson’s Far Side Cartoons Using Interpersonal and Textual Metafunctions....Pages 37-58
Metaphors and Topoi of H1N1 (Swine Flu) Political Cartoons: A Cross-cultural Analysis....Pages 59-91
Comics, Linguistics, and Visual Language: The Past and Future of a Field....Pages 92-118
Constructing Meaning: Verbalizing the Unspeakable in Turkish Political Cartoons....Pages 119-141
Plurilingualism in Francophone Comics....Pages 142-162
To and Fro Dutch Dutch: Diachronic Language Variation in Flemish Comics....Pages 163-182
Linguistic Codes and Character Identity in Afro Samurai....Pages 183-209
Pocho Politics: Language, Identity, and Discourse in Lalo Alcaraz’s La Cucaracha....Pages 210-238
The Use of English in the Swedish-Language Comic Strip Rocky....Pages 239-263
‘Ah, laddie, did ye really think I’d let a foine broth of a boy such as yerself get splattered…?’ Representations of Irish English Speech in the Marvel Universe....Pages 264-290
Conclusion....Pages 291-293
Back Matter....Pages 294-310