Formulaicity and Creativity in Language and Literature

ISBN-13: 9780367229672 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 116 str.

Ian MacKenzie; Martin A. Kayman

Opis

This book elucidates the nature of semi-fixed formulaic sequences and provides a convincing reassessment of the potential creativity of the formulaic in a variety of linguistic and literary contexts. This book was originally published as a special issue of the European Journal of English Studies.

Spis treści

Introduction: Formulaicity and creativity in language and literature  1. Formulaic sequences: a drop in the ocean of constructions or something more significant?  2. Begging the question: chunking, compositionality and language change  3. How native and non-native speakers of English interpret unfamiliar formulaic sequences  4. Rewriting the fairy tale in Louise Murphy’s and Lisa Goldstein’s Holocaust narratives  5. Transforming the pantomime formula in J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan  6. ‘The Hollow Echo’: Gothic fiction and the structure of a formulaic pattern