New journal John Benjamins: Journal of Language and Pop Culture

We are pleased to announce a new journal for 2025: Journal of Language and Pop Culture, edited by Valentin Werner (Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg), Paul Flanagan (University of Chester) and Mie Hiramoto (National University of Singapore).

The 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.