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Formulaicity is pervasive in both spoken and written language.
Speakers use a huge amount of prefabricated language including
collocations, idioms, fixed and semi-fixed expressions, and verbal
creativity often involves combining established word sequences
rather than inventing wholly new ones. In literature, formulaicity
was long disparaged as the opposite of creativity, and a hallmark
of 'genre fiction' of questionable aesthetic value, but a more
recent approach sees all writing as intertextual - a tissue of
citations and creative reworkings of other texts. The chapters in
this book elucidate the nature of semi-fixed formulaic sequences;
how the meaning of formulaic expressions can change over time; how
readers interpret formulaic expressions in first and second
languages; how modern and postmodern authors use traditional genres
and tales to challenging effect; and how formulaic patterns
involving particular words can underlie the texture and meanings of
entire novels. Together, the contributions to this collection
provide 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.
The chapters in this book elucidate the nature of semi-fixed
formulaic sequences; how the meaning of formulaic expressions can
change over time; how readers interpret formulaic expressions in
first and second languages; how modern and postmodern authors use
traditional genres and tales to challenging effect; and how
formulaic patterns involving particular words can underlie the
texture and meanings of entire novels. Together, the contributions
to this collection provide 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. Chapter 1
of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF
under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives
3.0 license.
https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/tandfbis/rt-files/docs/Open+Access+Chapters/9781138721579_oachapter1.pdf
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