Creativity and Register

Datos Bibliográficos

ID21784716
AutoresLocky Law (0000-0003-2234-9337, University of Hong Kong, autor de correspondencia)
Año2021
Volumen15
Número1
Páginas97-128
Fecha de publicación2021-05-04
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaLinguistics and the Human Sciences (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1742-2906 • E-ISSN: 1743-1662
EditorialUniversity of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1558/lhs.20061
OpenAlexW3157920983
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas22

The discussion on how creativity can be described in terms of register, field, tenor, and mode has been established in Law’s (2019b) creativity-in-register cube framework (CIRCF). This article is a sequel to that discussion by demonstrating how the CIRCF can be used in the quantitative analysis of Carter’s (2004) pattern-forming creativity, using the dialogues of TV drama House, M.D. (Shore, 2005) as examples. This article begins with an introductory review of background information and relevant literature on linguistic creativity and systemic functional linguistics, before focusing on verbal repetition as a resource for pattern-forming creativity. The methodology section includes a brief description of the CIRCF and the procedures for the computer-assisted extraction of pattern-forming creativity. The analysis section provides a walk-through of the CIRCF in the multidimensional semiotic analysis of pattern-forming creativity, both numerically and graphically, involving different registers, and variables under field, tenor and mode. Possible future research topics are included in the conclusion section

Creativity · Linguistics · Systemic functional linguistics · Computer Science · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Linguistics and Discourse Analysis · Mathematics · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology