A new Online First book review is available from the Journal of Language and Pop Culture: Alejandro Bolaños García-Escribano evaluates The Palgrave Handbook of Multilingualism and Language Varieties on Screen, edited by Irene Ranzato & Patrick Zabalbeascoa. OA access is available at lnkd.in/dyfkMb25

A new issue of the Journal of Language and Pop Culture is now available (benjamins.com/catalog/jlpo...), featuring contributions as shown below. We invite submissions (including interdisciplinary ones) on a rolling basis- see the JLPop website for further information: benjamins.com/catalog/jlpop

In the second of our two new articles over at JLPop Online First, Harald Spann & Thomas Wagner are "Tapping into the educational potential of pop songs in foreign language teaching through action research": www.jbe-platform.com/content/jour...

In the first of two new articles on JLPop, in a perception study of video game characters, Jens Kjeldgaard-Christiansen et al. explore "Good and evil in the voices of fictional characters": www.jbe-platform.com/content/jour...

NEW PUBLICATION ALERT! The fantastic Dionysis Goutsos take a diachronic look at (im)politeness in Greek film discourse DOI: doi.org/10.1075/jlpo...

Introducing my new project… Your Wrong (yourwrong.co.uk). It’s all about the language rules and judgements that appear in different forms of popular culture. Films, series, podcasts, music, books, even graffiti! I’d love your help to find examples!

Online panel on language in fictional film and television on 19 February

There will be an online launch for the Journal of Language and Pop Culture on Friday (7 Feb) 1200-1300 UK time with an introduction from the editors and brief outlines of each chapter by their authors. All are welcome! LINK: shorturl.at/nrW1W

The first issue of the Journal of Language and Pop Culture is now live, and available open access at www.benjamins.com/catalog/jlpop. See below for the contents, which cover pop music, film, video games, and social media discourse