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720 1 _aMacKenzie, Ian
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245 0 0 _aFormulaicity and Creativity in Language and Literature
260 _bTaylor & Francis
_c2018
300 _a1 online resource (126 p.)
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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520 _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.
540 _aAll rights reserved
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546 _aEnglish
650 7 _aLiterature & literary studies
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653 _acreativity
653 _aformulaicity
653 _aLanguage
653 _aliterature
653 _awritten language
720 1 _aKayman, Martin A.
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720 1 _aKayman, Martin A.
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720 1 _aMacKenzie, Ian
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793 0 _aDOAB Library.
856 4 0 _uhttps://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/35610
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