Ebook: Creativity in English as a Lingua Franca: Idiom and Metaphor
Author: Marie-Luise Pitzl
- Series: Developments in English as a Lingua Franca [DELF], 2
- Year: 2018
- Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
- Language: English
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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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