Creativity in English as a Lingua Franca
| Author | : Marie-Luise Pitzl |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
| Total Pages | : 302 |
| Release | : 2018-07-09 |
| ISBN-13 | : 9781501510083 |
| ISBN-10 | : 1501510088 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (88 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Creativity in English as a Lingua Franca by : Marie-Luise Pitzl
Download or read book Creativity in English as a Lingua Franca written by Marie-Luise Pitzl and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2018-07-09 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
