Affiliation:
1. University of Bayreuth , Bayreuth , Germany
2. TU Dresden , Dresden , Germany
Abstract
Abstract
In this introduction, we provide a short rationale for the genesis of the special issue on “The language of science fiction” and introduce its main theme – science fiction, with particular consideration of the language of estrangement – and main methodological framework – corpus linguistics. In addition, we give an overview of the contributions and motivate their grouping into four parts: (1) the influence of science fiction on non-fictional language, (2) sociolinguistic variation, (3) science fiction and the mind, and (4) lexis and literature.
Subject
Linguistics and Language,Language and Linguistics
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