Marie-Luise Pitzl

Gebundenes Buch

Creativity in English as a Lingua Franca

Idiom and Metaphor

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

Marie-Luise Pitzl, University of Vienna, Austria

Produktdetails

• Developments in English as a Lingua Franca [DELF] 2
• Verlag: De Gruyter
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Juli 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 160mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 568g
• ISBN-13: 9781501516887
• ISBN-10: 1501516884
• Artikelnr.: 51614168

Rezensionen

"All in all, Pitzl's dense and informative work contributes a great deal to our current knowledge about how NNSEs employ idiom and metaphor in unconventional ways in face-to-face interaction." Fiona MacArthur in: Metaphor and the Social World 9:2, 2019, 285-292