From Star Trek to The Hunger Games: emblem gestures in science fiction and their uptake in popular culture
Journal Article
Freestone, P., Kruk, J., & Gawne, L. (2023)
From Star Trek to The Hunger Games: emblem gestures in science fiction and their uptake in popular culture. Linguistics Vanguard, 9(s3), 257-266. https://doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2023-0006
Research on emblems to date has not drawn on corpus methods that use public data. In this paper, we use corpus methods to explore the use of original fictional gestures in the...
A rose is a rose is a rose: even in YA SFF
Presentation / Conference
Freestone, P. (2021, December)
A rose is a rose is a rose: even in YA SFF. Paper presented at Concepts in Popular Genre Fiction Symposium, Deakin University / Online
The rose has been valued, revered, and infused with meaning across time and cultures—from the earliest chemists to appear in the historical record to today's mass-market perfu...