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Linguistic Readymades and Creative Reuse
Journal of Integrated Design and Process Science, 2013Creativity often arises from a process of appropriation, in which something is wrenched from its normative context of use and given new meaning in a new setting. In this vein, Marcel Duchamp popularized the notion of an artistic ready-made when his Fountain – a signed urinal – was presented with some controversy at a Dada exhibition in 1917.
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Creativity and Applied Linguistics
2017After discussing whether TESOL is an art or a science, the chapter examines two ways in which creativity manifests itself in the field of applied linguistics (AL). There are examples directly linking AL and creativity. And there are cases where work has creatively shaped the domain of AL itself.
Alan Maley, Tamas Kiss
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The Bilingual Mind and Linguistic Creativity
Journal of Creative Communications, 2008The aim of this article is to focus on the two salient aspects of the capacity of the bilingual mind/brain, namely, its ability to maintain both language separation on one hand and language integration on the other. These two types of bilingual capacity result in language mixing, termed Code Mixing (CM) and Code Switching (CS) in socio-linguistic ...
Tej K. Bhatia, William C. Ritchie
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Informal pragmatics and linguistic creativity
South African Journal of Philosophy, 2014Examples of successful linguistic communication give rise to two important insights: (1) it should be understood most fundamentally in terms of the pragmatic success of each individual utterance, and (2) linguistic conventions need to be understood as on a par with the non-linguistic regularities that competent language users rely upon to refer. Syntax
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AddizionarioPLUS: a Creative Approach to Linguistic and Intercultural Education
Informatica (Slovenia), 2006This paper describes AddizionarioPLUS, the updated and extended version of Addizionario. Addizionario - a hypermedia linguistic laboratory in which children being from 5 to 12 years old can study Italian as their native or second language at various levels of difficulty and from different points of view - was developed by the Institute for ...
Turrini G, Baroni P, Paccosi A
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Inferential Memory and Linguistic Creativity
Metaphor and Symbolic Activity, 1990Metaphor seems, in many ways, the linguistic reflection of the fundamentally analogical nature of human memory and understanding. It follows that the processes involved in the comprehension of metaphor are not fundamentally different from those used in the comprehension of language that would normally be deemed literal. In this article, I examine those
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Linguistic Creativity and Word Formation
Italica, 1985Word formation and derivation, although receiving considerable attention on the part of theoretical and descriptive linguists (Aronoff 1975; Dardano 1978; Bauer 1983; Scalise 1984, etc.), have not yet been granted the same treatment in psycholinguistics from the point of view of both firstand second-language acquisition (but see Vasvari Fainberg 1983).
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Shakespeare's Linguistic Creativity: A Reappraisal
Literature Compass, 2014Abstract Shakespeare occupies a rarefied place in the popular imagination. In particular, he is widely celebrated for his creativity with language, and he tends to be portrayed as a singular genius with an inimitable vocabulary and an astounding gift for word invention.
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‘Dissolving’ the ‘Problem of Linguistic Creativity’
Philosophical Investigations, 1997In this article, I develop the so‐called ‘problem of linguistic creativity’ for two object‐languages, one finite, the other infinite. I then employ an approach first outlined by Ludwig Wittgenstein’s collaborator Friedrich Waismann, to ‘dissolve’ that problem, in a sense made precise by working through the example. This is to unsettle the computational
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