Norm and Anomaly in Language, Literature, and Culture

This book focuses on examining diverse facets of norm and anomaly from a linguistic, didactic, literary and cultural perspective. The authors address, among others, problems related to order and chaos, expression and repression, autonomy and oppression, harmony and discord in modern and contemporary British and US literature and culture.

This book explores norm and anomaly in various contemporary Anglophone linguistic, didactic, literary and cultural studies. The authors provide an international forum for the discussion and exchange of ideas. They analyze, among others, humour in comics and sitcom discourse, riddles and their linguistic properties, idiomaticity in language teaching. They also set their focus on issues like the uses of antipassive-like and extraposed constructions, as well as problems related to order and chaos, expression and repression, autonomy and oppression, harmony and discord in modern and contemporary British and US literature and culture.

Humour Norm transgression Rage comics Riddles Foodsemy Antipassive-like structures Verbalisations in sitcom Extraposed constructions Idioms Disability Eugenics Cult of youth and beauty Liminality The Young British Artists Artworks Murder Death penalty Religion Violence Grace The Conservative Revolution The Republican Party