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Talk to Me Sister, Trixie Mattel as a Pop Social Linguist

By Alan Lechusza In the era where banned books are up 30-40% nationwide overall (1,477 situations of banned books affecting 874 titles, PEN America 2023), the importance of contemporary cultural language – its use, dialectic and multi-media reference – becomes important.  Pop cultural language transgresses the growing divide between academia and the modern lingua franca.  … Continue reading Talk to Me Sister, Trixie Mattel as a Pop Social Linguist