The present volume investigates the representation and use AV of multilingualism, language variation in English and other languages in a variety of media and cultural production (stand-up comedy shows, drag shows, musical genres, TV series, sports commentary, to name some). Scholars from various disciplines – from literary or cultural studies, from linguistics, language teaching, and media studies – discuss a (dis-)harmony of voices, identity formation, (media) representation, power distribution and awareness. They look at the (linguistic) representations of (marginalized) groups or communities in films, TV series, novels, songs etc. and some include the analysis of the language(s) and language varieties used. They discuss the visibility, agency, empowerment, stereotyping or ridiculing of different social groups and treat issues of authenticity, (self-)identity formation, style-shifting, audiences, media types and genres. With this, the present volume explores and expands the concept of polyphony as it was famously employed by Mikhail Bakhtin in 1929.

Table of Contents Prelude Julia Andres, Brian Rozema & Anne Schröder ......................................... 7 Plucky Tommies, Angelic Nurses and the Others: Identity Constructions in Hegemonic and Antihegemonic Discourse of First World War Songs Franz Andres Morrissey ............................................................................ 9 In/Visibility, Silencing, Gaining Voice and Agency in Visual Discourses on Refugees and Forced Migration Silke Betscher .......................................................................................... 35 Identities without Alterity? Linguistic Varieties in Eddie Izzard’s Stand-up Comedy Shows Alexander Brock ...................................................................................... 51 Two Hundred Plus Years of Dialect Representation in English Literature Stephan Gramley ..................................................................................... 67 “No One Talks Like That. Sorry.” What Are People Doing When They Discuss Film and Television Accents? Jane Hodson & Kate Hunter .................................................................. 101 Identity through the Looking Glass: Voices of Drag in Past and Present Sven Leuckert & Ashleigh D. Moeller ................................................... 117 “Let’s Get Ready to Rumble”: Sport Language and Fan Identity Emalee Nelson ...................................................................................... 137 The Manifold Facets of Linguistic Contact: Giving Voice to the Multicultural Fabric of the French Caribbean in Literature Paula Prescod ........................................................................................ 147 Teaching World Englishes with Films Marion Schulte & Peter Schildhauer ..................................................... 167 Reggae and Dub Poetry: Teaching a Different “Riddim” Laurenz Volkmann ................................................................................ 185 Negotiating Cultural Identities in Interactions about Turkish TV Series Kristin Weiser-Zurmühlen ..................................................................... 199 The Voice of GDR-English Göran Wolf ............................................................................................. 219 The Fictolects of Child Narrators: Adult Constructions of the Child’s Voice Tyll Zybura & Katharina Pietsch .......................................................... 241 Biographical Notes on the Authors ....................................................... 265