CREATIVITY IN LANGUAGE: REFLECTIONS ON POLYSEMY, METAPHORS, IDIOMS, COLLOCATIONS…AND THE LIKE

ADEL SAKAKINI; Diana Hadi

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CREATIVITY IN LANGUAGE: REFLECTIONS ON POLYSEMY, METAPHORS, IDIOMS, COLLOCATIONS…AND THE LIKE

Authors:

ADEL SAKAKINI | Diana Hadi

Publisher:

Beirut Arab University Press

Journal:

BAU Journal - Society, Culture and Human Behavior Vol.1 Issue 1, pp.0-0

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

1/2019

Document Language:

English

Document ID (Org No.):

2001951003

pISSN:

2789-8296

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Abstract:

 According to Ronald Carter (2011), Creativity is such a complex and protean term to define. It involves inventiveness, imagination, novelty, originality and a myriad of other aspects. In language, in particular, creativity manifests itself in humans’ ability to produce an infinite number of sentences never spoken before and understand sentences never heard before or what Chomsky calls “creative aspect” of language use (Fromkin and Rodman, 1993.) It is of two types: rule-bound creativity and rule-breaking creativity. The researchers explore creativity employed in different language discourse such as slips of the pen, slips of the tongue, oxymoron, paradox, collocation, blends, anomaly, pragmatics, euphemisms, markedness and unmarkedness, puns, and text messaging.

Article Details

CREATIVITY IN LANGUAGE: REFLECTIONS ON POLYSEMY, METAPHORS, IDIOMS, COLLOCATIONS…AND THE LIKE

Authors:

ADEL SAKAKINI | Diana Hadi

Publisher:

Beirut Arab University Press

Journal:

BAU Journal - Society, Culture and Human Behavior Vol.1 Issue 1, pp.0-0

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

1/2019

Document Language:

English

Document ID (Org No.):

2001951003

pISSN:

2789-8296

Creativity

polysemy

metaphor

idiom

collocation

lexical ambiguity

anomaly

repetition

acronym

paradox

tongue twisters

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Article Details

Authors: ADEL SAKAKINI | Diana Hadi

Publisher: Beirut Arab University Press

Journal: BAU Journal - Society, Culture and Human Behavior Vol.1 Issue 1, pp.0-0

Document Type: Article

Publication Date: 1/2019

Document Language: English

Document ID (Org No.): 2001951003

pISSN: 2789-8296

Issues

Authors:

ADEL SAKAKINI | Diana Hadi

Publisher:

Beirut Arab University Press

Journal:

BAU Journal - Society, Culture and Human Behavior Vol.1 Issue 1, pp.0-0

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

1/2019

Document Language:

English

Document ID (Org No.):

2001951003

pISSN:

2789-8296