Talking, Creating: Interactional Language, Creativity, and Context

Autor/inn/en	Carter, Ronald; McCarthy, Michael
Titel	Talking, Creating: Interactional Language, Creativity, and Context
Quelle	In: Applied Linguistics, 25 (2004) 1, S.62-88 (27 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0142-6001
Schlagwörter	Creativity; Social Environment; Oral Language; Applied Linguistics; Language Usage; Databases; Computational Linguistics; English; Language Patterns; Teaching Methods; Literature; Discourse Analysis + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Kreativität; Soziales Umfeld; Oral interpretation; Mündlicher Sprachgebrauch; Linguistics; Linguistik; Angewandte Linguistik; Sprachgebrauch; Datenbank; Computerlinguistik; English language; Englisch; Sprachmodell; Sprachstruktur; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Literatur; Diskursanalyse
Abstract	When creative uses of spoken language have been investigated, the main examples have been restricted to particular contexts such as narrative and related story-telling genres. This paper reports on an initial investigation using the 5 million word CANCODE corpus of everyday spoken English and discusses a range of social contexts in which creative uses of language are manifested. A main conclusion reached is that creative language use often signposts the nature of interpersonal relationships, plays an important role in the construction of identities and is more likely to emerge in social contexts marked by non-institutionalized, symmetrical, and informal talk. The paper also argues that different creative patterns of talk are produced for different purposes, that clines and continua best capture such distinctions and that applications of such understandings to language learning and teaching, including the teaching of literature and culture, can benefit from closer scrutiny of such data. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10