论文简介

本期推荐的文章为我系特聘教授Giuseppe SAMO（通讯作者）与华中师范大学文学院研究员Francesco-Alessio Ursini所作，2023年10月18日发表于Linguistics Vanguard (A&HCI和SSCI期刊)，文章题目是：Cyberpunk, steampunk, and all that punk: genre names and their uses across communities。

该文旨在对与“朋克”元素相关的赛博朋克、蒸汽朋克等其他流派名称进行分析，以下为该文摘要：

The goal of this paper is to offer an analysis of cyberpunk, steampunk, and other genre names related via the punk element. We study the emergence and popularity of these names among science fiction fans and scholars, comparing them with “mainstream” appreciators. We carry out a corpus study that analyses data extracted from textual corpora in four languages (English, German, French, and Italian) and encyclopedias (fandom communities, e.g., Aesthetics Wiki). We show that the proliferation of punk genre names tends to be closely related to science fiction and other (fan-)fiction communities, who display an emotive and intellectual investment in punk subgenres. We propose an analysis via a frame-theoretical model that shows how cyberpunk and related genre names can describe the core narrative themes of each subgenre. We then propose that punk genre names form sets of near-synonym words via their ability to describe fictional narratives featuring anti-authoritarian protagonists across different world settings and technologies. We conclude by discussing the consequences of our account for possible theories of genres, genre names, and linguistic studies focusing on science fiction and other fictional genres.

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作者简介

通讯作者

Giuseppe Samo，北京语言大学语言学系特聘教授，毕业于瑞士日内瓦大学，获得语言学博士（荣获最高评语），研究兴趣为句法理论在语用学、计算机语言学和数据科学领域的作用。

第一作者

Francesco-Alessio Ursini，现任华中师范大学文学院研究员，2012年毕业于麦考瑞大学，并于2011-2012 年在匈牙利布达佩斯语言学研究所进行博士后科研工作。

编辑：吴思然 曹笑宁

排版：吴思然       

审校：熊仲儒