AN INTERDISCIPLINARY ANALYSIS OF TAYLOR SWIFT’S "FOLKLORE": LEXICAL PROFILING, THEMATIC COMPLEXITY, AND PEDAGOGICAL APPLICATIONS IN THE CREATIVE ECONOMY
Integrating popular culture artifacts into applied linguistics and interdisciplinary arts research offers a useful way to examine language learning within the creative economy. This paper uses lexical profiling and qualitative thematic analysis to explore the pedagogical potential of Taylor Swift’s eighth studio album,...