Results 1 to 10 of about 1,499 (151)

Pragmatics in language change and lexical creativity. [PDF]

Springerplus, 2016
This essay examines language change and linguistic creativity as revealed by remodelling, especially as a source for euphemisms and euphemistic dysphemisms and as a function of verbal play. Within the scope of this essay, there are predominantly two ways in which novel terms and expressions are created leading to language change: formally through ...
Allan K.
europepmc   +7 more sources

Lexical Creativity from Word Associations [PDF]

2012 Seventh International Conference on Knowledge, Information and Creativity Support Systems, 2012
A fluent ability to associate tasks, concepts, ideas, knowledge and experiences in a relevant way is often considered an important factor of creativity, especially in problem solving. We are interested in providing computational support for discovering such creative associations.
Hannu Toivonen, Jukka M Toivanen
exaly   +2 more sources

Judith Munat, Lexical Creativity, Texts and Contexts [PDF]

Lexis: Journal in English Lexicology, 2009
Lexical Creativity, Texts and Contexts presents the papers resulting from a seminar on this theme held during the 2004 ESSE Conference in Zaragoza. It contains an editor’s preface, a general introductory piece by Leonhard Lipka and eleven articles organised into four thematic sections: Lexical creativity in discourse, Lexical creativity in texts ...
Graham Ranger
doaj   +3 more sources

Carbon Reduction Activism in the UK: Lexical Creativity and Lexical Framing in the Context of Climate Change [PDF]

Environmental Communication, 2009
This article examines discourses associated with a new environmental movement, “Carbon Rationing Action Groups” (CRAGs). This case study is intended to contribute to a wider investigation of the emergence of a new type of language used to debate climate change mitigation. Advice on how to reduce one's “carbon footprint,” for example, is provided almost
Brigitte Nerlich, Nelya Koteyko
exaly   +4 more sources

Spanish word generation dataset from structured consonant prompts [PDF]

Scientific Data
This dataset captures responses from a lexical generation task designed to examine word production under structural constraints. Native Spanish speakers were presented with three-consonant strings and instructed to generate valid five-to-seven-letter ...
Jon Andoni Duñabeitia
doaj   +2 more sources

Lexical Creativity in Online Music Reviews

Półrocznik Językoznawczy Tertium
The language of the 21st century encompasses a wide array of texts, many of which can be found on the Internet. While the language of Internet blogs, posts and memes has received considerable attention from scholars, the language of online music reviews
Karolina Ryker
doaj   +4 more sources

Viability in Multiplex Lexical Networks and Machine Learning Characterizes Human Creativity

Big Data and Cognitive Computing, 2019
Previous studies have shown how individual differences in creativity relate to differences in the structure of semantic memory. However, the latter is only one aspect of the whole mental lexicon, a repository of conceptual knowledge that is considered to
Massimo Stella, Yoed Kenett, Stella Massimo   +2 more
exaly   +3 more sources

Linguistic Creativity in Electronic Mass Media Discourse: Means and Methods [PDF]

Актуальные проблемы филологии и педагогической лингвистики, 2022
The article is devoted to the analysis of the means of linguistic creativity verbalization in the discourse of electronic mass media. Aiming at the detection and analysis of these means, realized by employing devices of various language levels, the ...
Olga M. Litvishko, Natalia S. Rudenko, Yulia P. Chalaya   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Lexical creativity and humor in translation: On Rabelais’ linguistic genius and the difficulties in translating his works

Lexis: Journal in English Lexicology, 2021
This article focuses on lexical creativity and humor in François Rabelais’ Pantagruel and Gargantua and their translations into English and Hungarian. The theoretical section explores and defines the linguistic concept of “lexical creativity” and Koller ...
Adrienn Gulyás
doaj   +1 more source

How to (mis)use language: humor, creativity and lexical creation in Rikki Ducornet’s The Stain, The Fountains of Neptune and Phosphor in Dreamland

Lexis: Journal in English Lexicology, 2021
This article questions the link between creativity, lexical creation and humor in literary texts, more specifically in three of Rikki Ducornet’s novels: The Stain, The Fountains of Neptune and Phosphor in Dreamland.
Elodie Trolé
doaj   +1 more source