From Star Trek to The Hunger Games: emblem gestures in science fiction and their uptake in popular culture
(2023)
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 real world. We look at two examples from popular science fiction, the Vulc... Read More about From Star Trek to The Hunger Games: emblem gestures in science fiction and their uptake in popular culture.