Frontmatter

Articles in the same Issue

1. Frontmatter
2. Research Articles
3. Introduction to the special issue on “The language of science fiction”
4. The impact of Star Wars on the English language: Star Wars-derived words and constructions in present-day English corpora
5. “To boldly go where no man has gone before”: how iconic is the Star Trek split infinitive?
6. From Star Trek to The Hunger Games: emblem gestures in science fiction and their uptake in popular culture
7. The language of men and women in Star Trek: The Original Series and Star Trek: Discovery
8. “So, I trucked out to the border, learned to say ain’t, came to find work”: the sociolinguistics of Firefly
9. Subverting motion in science fiction? Beam in the Star Trek TV series
10. Perceiving with strangeness: quantifying a style of altered consciousness as estrangement in a corpus of 1960s American science fiction
11. “There was much new to grok”: an analysis of word coinage in science fiction literature
12. Cyberpunk, steampunk, and all that punk: genre names and their uses across communities