Formulaicity and Creativity in Language and Literature
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Formulaicity and Creativity in Language and Literature

  1. 116 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Formulaicity and Creativity in Language and Literature

About this book

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.

Chapter 1 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

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Yes, you can access Formulaicity and Creativity in Language and Literature by Ian MacKenzie, Martin A. Kayman in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Languages & Linguistics & Linguistics. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2018
eBook ISBN
9781351760614
Edition
1
Topic
Languages & Linguistics
Subtopic
Linguistics
Index
Languages & Linguistics

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Citation Information
  7. Notes on Contributors
  8. Introduction: Formulaicity and creativity in language and literature
  9. 1 Formulaic sequences: a drop in the ocean of constructions or something more significant?
  10. 2 Begging the question: chunking, compositionality and language change
  11. 3 How native and non-native speakers of English interpret unfamiliar formulaic sequences
  12. 4 Rewriting the fairy tale in Louise Murphyā€™s and Lisa Goldsteinā€™s Holocaust narratives
  13. 5 Transforming the pantomime formula in J.M. Barrieā€™s Peter Pan
  14. 6 ā€˜The Hollow Echoā€™: Gothic fiction and the structure of a formulaic pattern
  15. Index