Linguistics and the Study of Comics

Tables and Figures Notes on Contributors Introduction; F.Bramlett Image Schemas and Conceptual Metaphor in Action Comics; E.Potsch & R.F.Williams Creating Humor in Gary Larson's Far Side Cartoons Using Interpersonal and Textual Metafunctions; R.Watson Todd Metaphors and Topoi of H1N1 (Swine Flu) Political Cartoons: A Cross-cultural Analysis; J.Hallett & R.W.Hallett Comics, Linguistics, and Visual Language: The Past and Future of a Field; N.Cohn Constructing Meaning: Verbalizing the Unspeakable in Turkish Political Cartoons; V.Tzankova & T.Schiphorst Plurilingualism in Francophone Comics; M.Ben-Rafael & E.Ben-Rafael To and Fro Dutch Dutch: Diachronic Language Variation in Flemish Comics; G.Meesters Linguistic Codes and Character Identity in Afro Samurai; F.Bramlett Pocho Politics: Language, Identity, and Discourse in Lalo Alcaraz's La Cucaracha; C.Breidenbach The Use of English in the Swedish-Language Comic Strip Rocky; K.Beers Fägersten '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; S.Walshe Conclusion; F.Bramlett Index

Frank Bramlett is Associate Professor in the Department of English, the University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA. He has presented on discourse analysis and sociolinguistics at a wide range of linguistics conferences and published in journals such as Narrative and the on-line comics journal ImageText.