Creativity in English as a Lingua Franca: Idiom and Metaphor

Marie-Luise Pitzl

Published by De Gruyter Mouton 2018

Creativity in English as a Lingua Franca

Idiom and Metaphor

Marie-Luise Pitzl

Volume 2 in the series Developments in English as a Lingua Franca [DELF]

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501510083

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

Marie-Luise Pitzl, University of Vienna, Austria

Reviews

"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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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Acknowledgements Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	V
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Abbreviations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	XI
List of Figures Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	XII
List of Tables Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	XIII
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. English as a lingua franca: Why creativity? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	8
2. Creativity, idiom and metaphor Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	39
3. Describing ELF: Analyzing VOICE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	79
4. Creative idioms in ELF interactions: Exploring forms Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	105
5. Functions of creative idioms and metaphors in ELF interactions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	140
6. Metaphorical creativity in ELF interactions: Discovering patterns and systematicities Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	156
7 .The multilingual dimension of metaphorical creativity Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	189
8. Implications of metaphorical creativity Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	223
Appendix Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	250
References Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	267
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	283

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Audience: Researchers and Scholars interested in English as a Lingua Franca
Pages
- Front matter: 13
- Main content: 288
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 20
- Tables: 10
Keywords: English; English as a Lingua Franca; Idiom; Metaphor

eBook

Published: July 9, 2018
ISBN: 9781501510083

Hardcover

Published: July 9, 2018
ISBN: 9781501516887