David West

List of John Benjamins publications in which David West is involved.

Article

West, David 2023 “Strangers in the night, exchanging glasses”: An investigation into why we mondegreen Interdisciplinary approaches to the language of pop culture, Montoro, Rocío and Valentin Werner (eds.), pp. 197–213 | Article

This article deals with the phenomenon of mondegreens, a term coined in 1954 to describe when a listener to a pop song mishears the lyrics and sings her own version instead, as in Strangers in the night, exchanging glasses (rather than glances). A distinction is made in the literature between… read more