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Title Lexical creativity, texts and contexts / edited by Judith Munat
Published Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 2007

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 294 pages)
Series Studies in functional and structural linguistics, 0165-7712 ; v. 58
Studies in functional and structural linguistics ; v. 58. 0165-7712
Contents Lexical Creativity, Texts and Contexts; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; List of tables; List of figures; List of contributors; Editor's preface; References; Introduction; Lexical creativity, textuality and problems of metalanguage; Lexical creativity in discourse; How to do (even more) things with nonce words (other than naming); The phonetics of 'un'; Lexical creativity in texts; Tracing lexical productivity and creativity in the British Media; Lexical creativity in texts; Cathy Wilcox meets the phrasal lexicon; Lexical creativity in texts; Blendalicious
Summary The coining of novel lexical items and the creative manipulation of existing words and expressions is heavily dependent on contextual factors, including the semantic, stylistic, textual and social environments in which they occur. The twelve specialists contributing to this collection aim to illuminate creativity in word formation with respect to functional discourse roles, but also examine 'critical creativity' determined by language policy, as well as diachronic phonetic variation in creatively-coined words. The data, based either on large corpora or smaller hand-collected samples, is drawn
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Lexicology.
Creativity (Linguistics)
REFERENCE.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Vocabulary.
Creativity (Linguistics)
Lexicology
Form Electronic book
Author Munat, Judith.
LC no. 2007020957
ISBN 9789027291752
9027291756
9027215677
9789027215673