TY  - BOOK
AU  - MacKenzie,Ian
AU  - Kayman,Martin A.
AU  - Kayman,Martin A.
AU  - MacKenzie,Ian
TI  - Formulaicity and Creativity in Language and Literature
PY  - 2018///
PB  - Taylor & Francis
KW  - Biography, Literature and Literary studies
KW  - bicssc
KW  - creativity
KW  - formulaicity
KW  - Language
KW  - literature
KW  - written language
N1  - Free-to-read
N2  - 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
UR  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/26112
ER  -