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Creativity and discourse
Author(s) -
JONES RODNEY H.
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
world englishes
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.6
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1467-971X
pISSN - 0883-2919
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-971x.2010.01675.x
Subject(s) - creativity , sociolinguistics , applied linguistics , sociocultural linguistics , linguistics , sociology , discourse analysis , creativity technique , psychology , quantitative linguistics , social psychology , philosophy
This paper will consider the relationship between discourse analysis and creativity and elucidate the ways in which a discourse analytical approach to creativity might be distinguished from the ‘language and creativity’ approaches which currently dominate applied linguistics and sociolinguistics. In the ‘discourse and creativity’ approach I will be describing, creativity is located not in language per se , but in the strategic ways people use language in concrete situations in order to stimulate social change. I will explore how aspects of this approach are reflected in work carried out within the paradigm of world Englishes.