Language and creativity
The art of common talk
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 7901690 |
|---|---|
| Autores | R K Sawyer (0000-0002-5410-461X, Washington University in St. Louis, autor de correspondencia) |
| Año | 2007 |
| Volumen | 36 |
| Número | 2 |
| Páginas | 270-274 |
| Fecha de publicación | 2007-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sí |
| Open Access | Sí |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Revista | Language in Society (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores de la revista | ISSN: 0047-4045 • E-ISSN: 1469-8013 |
| Editorial | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0047404507250134 |
| OpenAlex | W2159806230 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citas recibidas | 1 |
| Referencias citadas | 6 |
Ronald Carter , Language and creativity: The art of common talk . London: Routledge, 2004. Pp. xiii, 255. Hb $99.95, Pb $29.95. The central idea of Carter's wonderful new book is that “Creativity is a pervasive feature of spoken language ... a key component in interpersonal communication, and ... is a property actively possessed by all speakers and listeners” (p. 6). Carter is a scholar with a long history of solid work, both as one of the leaders of the CANCODE corpus effort (the Cambridge and Nottingham Corpus of Discourse in English), and as the author of two books on English grammar (Carter, Hughes, & McCarthy, 2000; Carter & McCarthy, 2006). During countless hours reviewing transcripts from the CANCODE corpus of spoken English (5 million words, collected between 1993 and 2001), he repeatedly noticed that “patterns and forms of language which as a student of literature I had readily classified as poetic or literary can be seen to be regularly occurring in everyday conversational exchanges” (10
Art · Creativity · Grammar · Interpersonal communication · Key (lock) · Linguistics · Literature · Poetry · Sociology · Spoken language · Communication · Computer Science · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Obras citantes distintas | 1 |
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| Citas por año | 0,06 |
| Intervalo de citas | 2009 - 2009 (1) |
| Velocidad de citación | historical |
| Altamente citado | No |