Language Play in Contemporary Swedish Comic Strips

This book focuses on the 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 languages. The overall purpose of the book is to highlight linguistic playfulness, which is as yet unobserved and unaccounted for in theories of linguistic humor as applied to comics scholarship.

About the author

Kristy Beers Fägersten, Södertörn University, Sweden.

Product details

• Authors: Kristy Beers Fägersten
• Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2020
• No. of pages: 203
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 233 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 436 g
• Illustrations: 97 b/w ill.
• Series: Language Play and Creativity; Language Play and Creativity
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies