Creativity in English as a lingua franca : idiom and metaphor

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Creativity in English as a lingua franca : idiom and metaphor

Marie-Luise Pitzl

(Developments in English as a Lingua Franca, v. 2)

De Gruyter Mouton, c2018

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-281) and index

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This book investigates formal characteristics and discourse functions of linguistic creativity at the level of idioms in spoken ELF as represented in the Vienna-Oxford International Corpus of English (VOICE). Building on the findings of previous ELF research, the book proposes that creativity might serve as a fundamental concept in accounting for the variation that seems to be central to describing and understanding English as a lingua franca.

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