Creativity in English as a Lingua Franca
Idiom and Metaphor| By: | Marie-Luise Pitzl |
| Publisher: | De Gruyter |
| Print ISBN: | 9781501516887 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781501510038 |
| Edition: | 1 |
| Copyright: | 2018 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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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.