Everyday creativity in language: Textuality, contextuality, and critique
Everyday creativity in language: Textuality, contextuality, and critique
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DOI：
10.1093/applin/amm036
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发表时间：
2007-12-01
影响因子：
3.6
通讯作者：
Swann, Joan
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作者：
Maybin, Janet;Swann, Joan
本文首先考察了应用语言学家最近的工作，他们认为创造力不仅是特别熟练和有天赋的语言使用者的属性，而且普遍存在于日常实践中。此外，在文学性、语言游戏和幽默方面，创造力的这种明显的民主化有助于应用语言学更广泛地重新关注语言使用者作为意义的创造性设计者。除了诗歌形式的文本分析，人们对创造力的互动功能也越来越感兴趣，这表明需要一个更动态的模式来解决日常创造力的对话性质，它的社会历史维度和语境化过程。为了提出这样一个模型，作者借鉴了俄罗斯社会历史学关于语言作为社会符号的评价功能的概念，并将应用语言学的研究与语言人类学关于语境化、框架化和表演中的反身性的工作结合起来。虽然语言人类学家主要关注传统的口头艺术，但作者认为，表演的框架和批判性潜力也受到日常互动中更短暂的诗意语言使用的影响。关于四个不同的数据例子，他们建议如何开发一个综合分析框架，以处理创造力的文本、背景和关键维度。
This paper starts by examining recent work by applied linguists who argue that creativity is not only a property of especially skilled and gifted language users, but is pervasive in routine everyday practice. Also variously addressing literariness, language play and humour, this apparent democratization of creativity contributes to a more general refocusing within applied linguistics on language users as creative designers of meaning. Alongside the textual analysis of poetic form, there has been an increasing interest in the interactional functions of creativity, suggesting the need for a more dynamic model which can address the dialogical nature of everyday creativity, its sociohistorical dimensions and processes of contextualization. In order to suggest how such a model could be developed, the authors draw on Russian sociohistorical conceptions of the evaluative function of language as social sign and bring together the applied linguistic research with work from linguistic anthropology on contextualization, framing, and reflexivity within performance. While linguistic anthropologists have focused mainly on traditional oral art, the authors argue that the framing and critical potential of performance is also keyed by more fleeting uses of poetic language in everyday interaction. In relation to four contrasting examples of data, they suggest how an integrated analytical framework might be developed which addresses textual, contextual, and critical dimensions of creativity.