Creativity in English As a Lingua Franca : idiom and metaphor / Marie-Luise Pitzl.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pitzl, Marie-Luise, author.

Series:

Developments in English as a lingua franca ; 2192-8177 Volume 2.

Developments in English as a lingua Franca ; Volume 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lingua francas.

English language--Globalization.

English language.

Creativity (Linguistics).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (302 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This book investigates formal characteristics and discourse functions of linguistic creativity at the level of idioms in spoken ELF as represented in the Vienna-Oxford International Corpus of English (VOICE). Building on the findings of previous ELF research, the book proposes that creativity might serve as a fundamental concept in accounting for the variation that seems to be central to describing and understanding English as a lingua franca.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Acknowledgements

Contents

Abbreviations

List of Figures

List of Tables

Introduction

1. English as a lingua franca: Why creativity?

2. Creativity, idiom and metaphor

3. Describing ELF: Analyzing VOICE

4. Creative idioms in ELF interactions: Exploring forms

5. Functions of creative idioms and metaphors in ELF interactions

6. Metaphorical creativity in ELF interactions: Discovering patterns and systematicities

7 .The multilingual dimension of metaphorical creativity

8. Implications of metaphorical creativity

Appendix

References

Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781501510038

1501510037

9781501510083

1501510088

OCLC:

1046605949