Tag: “The Fly” (Achtung Baby)

Anti-language in the Songs of U2 John E. Hurtgen Abstract This essay is a sociolinguistic study of three songs from the U2 catalog viewed through the lens of anti-language.1 Anti- language (literally, “back talk”) is the theory of British linguist Michael A. K. Halliday that describes the counter-reality generating system of a cultural sub-group. A…