02546namaa2200421uu 4500001001000000003000600010005001700016006001900033007001500052008004100067040001700108041000800125042000700133072001400140720002400154245005900178260002700237300003100264336002600295337002600321338003600347506005100383520126300434540006301697546001201760650004201772653001501814653001701829653001301846653001501859653002101874720002701895720002701922720002401949793001801973856011601991999001702107doab35610oapen20260305123945.0m     o  d        cr|mn|---annan210210s2018    xx |||||o     ||| 0|eng d  aoapencoapen0 aeng  adc 7aD2bicssc1 aMacKenzie, Ian4edt00aFormulaicity and Creativity in Language and Literature  bTaylor & Francisc2018  a1 online resource (126 p.)  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier0 aFree-to-readfUnrestricted online access2star  aFormulaicity 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.  aAll rights reserveduhttp://oapen.org/content/about-rights  aEnglish 7aLiterature & literary studies2bicssc  acreativity  aformulaicity  aLanguage  aliterature  awritten language1 aKayman, Martin A.4edt1 aKayman, Martin A.4oth1 aMacKenzie, Ian4oth0 aDOAB Library.40uhttps://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/3561070zFree-to-read: DOAB: description of the publication  c92666d92666