@ARTICLE{Miłkowska-Samul_Kamila_“How_2019, author={Miłkowska-Samul, Kamila}, number={No 2}, pages={399-406}, journal={Kwartalnik Neofilologiczny}, howpublished={online}, year={2019}, publisher={Wydział I Nauk Humanistycznych i Społecznych PAN i Uniwersytet Warszawski}, abstract={“How come you’re not shipping them??? They’re canon”: a look at the language of Italian fandom – The aim of this article is to examine a relatively recent phenomenon in the language of fandom, i.e. various communities of fans that form around a cultural event or artifact, such as a book, a TV show, a movie, etc. This research is located within fan studies, however, it mainly investigates the linguistic aspects of being a fan in Italian. The distinctive feature of the language of fandom as a specific variety, associated with a particular topic and activity and mediated by Internet communication tools, is a specialist lexicon, understandable only to community members. The article concentrates on loanwords from English which in the case of Italian primarily comprise the vocabulary of fandom.}, type={Artykuły / Articles}, title={“How come you’re not shipping them??? They’re canon”: a look at the language of Italian fandom}, URL={http://www.journals.pan.pl/Content/112021/PDF/KN%202-19%2032MI%C5%81KOWSKA-SAMUL.pdf}, doi={10.24425/kn.2019.128414}, keywords={fan studies, fandom, language variety, lexis, loanwords}, }