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Formulaicity and Creativity in Language and Literature by Martin A. Kayman (2019, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherRoutledge

ISBN-100367229676

ISBN-139780367229672

eBay Product ID (ePID)23038303030

Product Key Features

Number of Pages116 Pages

Publication NameFormulaicity and Creativity in Language and Literature

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2019

SubjectStyle Manuals, General, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Language Arts & Disciplines

AuthorMartin A. Kayman

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Length9.8 in

Item Width6.8 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceCollege Audience

Dewey Edition23

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal808.042

Table Of ContentIntroduction: Formulaicity and creativity in language and literature Ian MacKenzie and Martin A. Kayman 1. Formulaic sequences: a drop in the ocean of constructions or something more significant? Andreas Buerki 2. Begging the question: chunking, compositionality and language change Carol Lynn Moder 3. How native and non-native speakers of English interpret unfamiliar formulaic sequences Alison Wray, Huw Bell and Katy Jones 4. Rewriting the fairy tale in Louise Murphy's and Lisa Goldstein's Holocaust narratives María Jesús Martínez-Alfaro 5. Transforming the pantomime formula in J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan Kirsten Stirling 6. 'The Hollow Echo': Gothic fiction and the structure of a formulaic pattern Manuel Aguirre

SynopsisFormulaicity 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.

LC Classification NumberPE1421