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Autore |
Pitzl Marie-Luise |
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Creativity in English As a Lingua Franca : idiom and metaphor / / Marie-Luise Pitzl |
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Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2018] |
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©2018 |
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ISBN |
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1-5015-1003-7 |
1-5015-1008-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (302 pages) |
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Collana |
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Developments in English as a lingua Franca ; ; Volume 2 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Lingua francas |
English language - Globalization |
Creativity (Linguistics) |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Introduction -- 1. English as a lingua franca: Why creativity? -- 2. Creativity, idiom and metaphor -- 3. Describing ELF: Analyzing VOICE -- 4. Creative idioms in ELF interactions: Exploring forms -- 5. Functions of creative idioms and metaphors in ELF interactions -- 6. Metaphorical creativity in ELF interactions: Discovering patterns and systematicities -- 7 .The multilingual dimension of metaphorical creativity -- 8. Implications of metaphorical creativity -- Appendix -- References -- Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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. |
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