Creativity in English as a Lingua Franca : Idiom and Metaphor
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
1501516884
ISBN-13
9781501516887
Publisher
De Gruyter
Imprint
De Gruyter Mouton
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jul 9th, 2018
Print length
301 Pages
Weight
561 grams
Product Classification:
LinguisticsLanguage teaching & learning (other than ELT)Language teaching and learning
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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.
"All in all, Pitzl’s dense and informative work contributes a great deal to our current knowledge about how NNSEs employ idiom and metaphor in unconventional ways in face-to-face interaction." Fiona MacArthur in: Metaphor and the Social World 9:2, 2019, 285-292
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