{"product_id":"formulaicity-and-creativity-in-language-ian-mackenzie-9780367229672","title":"Formulaicity and Creativity in Language and Literature","description":"\u003cp\u003eFormulaicity 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 \u003ci\u003eEuropean Journal of English Studies. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ian MacKenzie\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0367229676\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780367229672\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/07\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 116\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.49lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.69h x 6.85w x 0.27d","brand":"Ian MacKenzie","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44058146504959,"sku":"9780367229672","price":52.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_6db3e496-c8fd-4045-911e-6bf3e8acbcbc.jpg?v=1685050910","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/formulaicity-and-creativity-in-language-ian-mackenzie-9780367229672","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}