03272namaa2200601uu 4500 oapen26112 oapen 20251217011854.0 a||||fo|||||||||0| cr|mn|---annan 240424s2018a||||fo|||||||||0|eng d 993957577 OCoLC (OCoLC)993957577 oapen oapen eng dc D thema Kayman, Martin A. aut Formulaicity and Creativity in Language and Literature Taylor & Francis Routledge [Imprint] 2018 1 online resource (126 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Free-to-read Unrestricted online access star 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. Open licence https://oapen.org/article/rights eng English language Style. Grammar, Comparative and general. Linguistic analysis (Linguistics) Literary style. Analyse linguistique (Linguistique) Anglais (Langue) Stylistique. Grammaire comparée et générale. Style littéraire. Biography, Literature and Literary studies thema English language Style fast Grammar, Comparative and general fast Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics. bisacsh Linguistic analysis (Linguistics) fast Literary style fast Literature & literary studies. bicssc creativity formulaicity Language literature written language Kayman, Martin A. edt MacKenzie, Ian edt OAPEN Library. https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/26112 Free-to-read: OAPEN Library/DOAB: description of the publication 0 37342 37342