Formulaicity and Creativity in Language and Literature Paperback / softback
Edited by Ian MacKenzie, Martin A. (Cardiff University, UK) Kayman
Paperback / softback
Description
Formulaicity is pervasive in both spoken and written language.
Speakers use a huge amount of prefabricated language including collocations, idioms, fixed and semi-fixed expressions, and verbal creativity often involves combining established word sequences rather than inventing wholly new ones.
In literature, formulaicity was long disparaged as the opposite of creativity, and a hallmark of ‘genre fiction’ of questionable aesthetic value, but a more recent approach sees all writing as intertextual – a tissue of citations and creative reworkings of other texts.
The chapters in this book elucidate the nature of semi-fixed formulaic sequences; how the meaning of formulaic expressions can change over time; how readers interpret formulaic expressions in first and second languages; how modern and postmodern authors use traditional genres and tales to challenging effect; and how formulaic patterns involving particular words can underlie the texture and meanings of entire novels.
Together, the contributions to this collection provide a convincing reassessment of the potential creativity of the formulaic in a variety of linguistic and literary contexts.
This book was originally published as a special issue of the European Journal of English Studies.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:116 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:07/02/2019
- Category:
- ISBN:9780367229672
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:116 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:07/02/2019
- Category:
- ISBN:9780367229672
