Creativity in English as a Lingua Franca - Idiom and Metaphor

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.

About the author

Marie-Luise Pitzl, University of Vienna, Austria

Report

"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

Product details

• Authors: Marie-Luise Pitzl
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2018
• EAN: 9781501516887
• ISBN: 978-1-5015-1688-7
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 162 mm x 235 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 568 g
• Illustrations: 20 b/w ill., 10 b/w tbl.
• Series: Developments in English as a Lingua Franca; Developments in English as a Lingua Franca [DELF]; Developments in English as a Lingua Franca; Developments in English as a Lingua Franca [DELF]; Developments in English as a L; ISSN; Developments in English as a Lingua Franca [DELF], 2
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics