Transitions and transformations - exploring creativity in literary and everyday language

过渡和转变——探索文学和日常语言的创造力

• 批准号: AH/E509339/1
• 负责人: Joan Swann
• 金额: $ 1.54万
• 依托单位: The Open University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2007 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FE509339%2F1
• 关键词: Transitions; transformations; exploring; creativity; literary

This seminar series explores an idea that has begun to interest researchers in English language, literature and related fields: that there is some continuity between the language of literature and more everyday verbal artistry. According to this argument, notions of literariness or artistry may extend not just to professionally produced texts, such as advertising copy, but to more routine instances of language use. Language is not simply­ perhaps not even mainly- about the communication of ideas. Across a range of genres speakers and writers interact creatively with language, and the most routine communication may demand, at least in part, an aesthetic response. Recent insights into the nature and functions of everyday linguistic artistry have come from the study of large electronic corpora containing several million words of language use. To this may be added evidence from the qualitative study of language in interaction, ethnographies of language and literacy practices, multimodal textual analyses. Such research has uncovered a range of literary-like practices: playful language, figurative language, conversational stories, everyday performances, play across modes in graffiti and other visual texts, the design of new literacy practices to fit changing social and cultural circumstances.While of interest in its own terms, such research also poses theoretical and methodological challenges. Do we need a more dynamic model of literary or literary-like language use across this range of texts and practices? How do we address questions of value? Can we devise a more inclusive 'social behaviour that embraces a wide variety of practices and that would stand in contrast to traditional ideas derived from canonical literature? On the other hand, is there a danger of bundling together distinctive texts and practices within a single aesthetic frame? Do we still need to acknowledge the distinctiveness of literature?The seminar series will bring together researchers from different traditions of enquiry -linguistics, including stylistics and sociolinguistics; literature and creative writing; anthropology; literacy studies; media and cultural studies; advertising and public relations. We also intend to involve some practitioners from relevant fields, such as poets who see themselves as working with and transforming everyday language, and advertising and PR professionals. There is normally limited scope for detailed discussion across these disciplinary boundaries. The seminars will be designed to encourage cross­ fertilization of ideas and develop new understandings of literary activity across a range of language practices.We shall explore the following broad themes across four seminars:The democratization of literariness? (How does literary, or literary-like language work across a broad range of texts and practices?)Time, space and hybridity (historical, geographical and cultural dimensions; global and local practices; hybridity and change);Modes and textures (the contribution of multimodal textual analysis to our understanding of literariness/artistry);Literary transformations (individual inspiration vs literary creativity as social; textual transformations, translation and rewriting).The seminars will be designed to encourage the joint exploration of ideas, but there will be scope for contestation as well as consensus. Each seminar will include contributions from lead presenters, and from a respondent who will aim to encourage discussion. While we have set broad themes across the series, we shall also respond to key ideas that emerge.Outcomes of the series will include are art to the AHRC; an edited collection; submissions to refereed journals. The series also aims to research activity, the establishment of longer term networks and proposals for research funding. Less tangibly, the series will extend the boundaries of current thinking on the relationship between literary and everyday verbal artistry.

这一系列研讨会探讨了一个已经开始引起英语语言、文学和相关领域研究人员兴趣的观点：文学语言和更多日常语言艺术之间存在着某种连续性。根据这一论点，文学性或艺术性的概念不仅可以扩展到专业制作的文本，如广告文案，还可以扩展到更常规的语言使用实例。语言不仅仅是--也许甚至不是主要的--关于思想的交流。在一系列流派中，演讲者和作家与语言进行创造性的互动，而最常规的交流可能至少部分需要审美反应。最近对日常语言艺术的本质和功能的洞察来自于对包含数百万个语言使用单词的大型电子语料库的研究。此外，还可以从互动中的语言定性研究、语言和识字实践的民族志研究、多模式文本分析中获得证据。这样的研究揭示了一系列类似文学的实践：有趣的语言、比喻的语言、对话故事、日常表演、涂鸦和其他视觉文本中的跨模式游戏、为适应不断变化的社会和文化环境而设计的新的识字实践。尽管这种研究本身很有趣，但也提出了理论和方法上的挑战。我们是否需要在这一系列文本和实践中使用更具活力的文学或类似文学的语言的模式？我们如何解决价值问题？我们能否设计出一种更具包容性的‘社会行为’，包容各种各样的实践，并与源自正典文学的传统观念形成鲜明对比？另一方面，是否存在将独特的文本和实践捆绑在一个单一的美学框架内的危险？我们还需要承认文学的独特性吗？这一系列研讨会将汇集来自不同研究传统的研究人员--语言学，包括文体学和社会语言学；文学和创意写作；人类学；识字研究；媒体和文化研究；广告和公共关系。我们还打算让相关领域的一些从业者参与进来，例如认为自己正在与日常语言合作并改变日常语言的诗人，以及广告和公关专业人士。通常情况下，跨越这些学科界限进行详细讨论的范围有限。研讨会的设计将鼓励思想的交流，并通过一系列的语言实践发展对文学活动的新理解。我们将通过四个研讨会探讨以下广泛的主题：文学性的民主化？(文学或类似文学的语言如何在广泛的文本和实践中发挥作用？)时间、空间和杂合(历史、地理和文化维度；全球和本地实践；杂合和变化)；模式和纹理(多模式文本分析对我们对文学性/艺术性的理解的贡献)；文学转化(个人灵感与作为社会的文学创造力；文本转化、翻译和重写)。研讨会的设计将鼓励思想的共同探索，但仍有争议和共识的空间。每个研讨会将包括主要演讲者和旨在鼓励讨论的答复者的意见。虽然我们在整个系列中设定了广泛的主题，但我们也将对出现的关键想法做出回应。该系列的成果将包括AHRC的艺术；编辑过的合集；对参考期刊的投稿。该系列还旨在研究活动、建立更长期的网络和提出研究资金建议。不那么明显的是，这部连续剧将扩展目前对文学和日常语言艺术之间关系的思考的边界。