Formulaicity and Creativity in Language and Literature (häftad)
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Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
116
Utgivningsdatum
2019-02-07
Förlag
Routledge
Medarbetare
Kayman, Martin A.
Illustrationer
Black & white illustrations
Dimensioner
246 x 174 x 7 mm
Vikt
222 g
Antal komponenter
1
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1662:Standard B&W 6.85 x 9.69 in or 246 x 174 mm Perfect Bound on White w/Gloss Lam
ISBN
9780367229672

Formulaicity and Creativity in Language and Literature

av Ian MacKenzie, Martin A Kayman
Häftad,  Engelska, 2019-02-07
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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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Ian MacKenzie, Martin A Kayman

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Ian MacKenzie recently retired from the Faculty of Translation and Interpreting at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. His research largely concerns the role and nature of English as an international language. Martin A. Kayman is a former Head of the School of English, Communication and Philosophy at Cardiff University, UK, and a general editor of the European Journal of English Studies. He researches and publishes on law and literature, and on the cultural politics of English as a global language.

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Introduction: Formulaicity and creativity in language and literature 1. Formulaic sequences: a drop in the ocean of constructions or something more significant? 2. Begging the question: chunking, compositionality and language change 3. How native and non-native speakers of English interpret unfamiliar formulaic sequences 4. Rewriting the fairy tale in Louise Murphys and Lisa Goldsteins Holocaust narratives 5. Transforming the pantomime formula in J.M. Barries Peter Pan 6. The Hollow Echo: Gothic fiction and the structure of a formulaic pattern

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