2023/2024
Linguistic Creativity
Category 'Best Course for Broadening Horizons and Diversity of Knowledge and Skills'
Category 'Best Course for New Knowledge and Skills'
Type:
Mago-Lego
Delivered by:
School of Foreign Languages
When:
1, 2 module
Online hours:
20
Open to:
students of all HSE University campuses
Instructors:
Alexandra Nagornaya
Language:
English
ECTS credits:
6
Contact hours:
40
Course Syllabus
Abstract
The course addresses the phenomenon of linguistic creativity, which is seen as a complex type of mental and speech activity resulting in an unusual interpretation of an object or a phenomenon and its unconventional representation in speech. Linguistic creativity inevitably involves the “breaking, restructuring and transformation of stable patterns” (S.K. Maynard) and saves the language from “IKEAfication” (T. Veale), preventing it from becoming a set of ready-made parts which are put together mechanically, according to the preset scheme and make up practical but primitive structures. This activity, however, is not fully arbitrary and it follows certain rules which are shaped by cultural and language traditions and are largely determined by the social function of communication. Within the course, linguistic creativity is interpreted as a systemic phenomenon which is observed at all the levels of the language system: from phonetics to syntax. Special emphasis is laid on metaphorical creativity understood as an ability to construct new metaphors at the conceptual (mental) and verbal levels. The course rests upon the most recent theories, hypotheses and approaches advanced in Western Linguistics. The language material comes from fiction, as well as mass media and academic texts.
Learning Objectives
- to lay theoretical foundations for conducting research in the sphere of linguistic creativity
- to teach the basic principles and procedures of interdisciplinary research
- to develop and refine linguistic creativity skills
Expected Learning Outcomes
- The students detect creative language forms in context, assess the degree of their novelty, analyze the processes underlying the creation of a new element
- The student identifies creative similes, creates similes of different types, constructs ironic similes
- The student identifies conventional and creative metaphors, analyzes the mechanisms of creativity, explains the peculiarities of metaphors, creates metaphors of their own
- The student identifies morphologically creative forms, analyzes their semantic peculiarities, makes up new forms themselves
- The student constructs phrasal epithets
Course Contents
- The Concept of Linguistic Creativity
- Creative Similes
- Metaphorical creativity
- Morphological creativity
- Syntactical Creativity
Assessment Elements
- projectThe student does research into manifestations of linguistic creativity and presents it in class
- participation
- test
Bibliography
Recommended Core Bibliography
- 9780340950012 - Martin Haspelmath, Andrea Sims - Understanding Morphology - 2010 - Routledge - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=348096 - nlebk - 348096
- A critical introduction to syntax, Miller, J., 2011
- Afef Badri. (2017). Emergentist Metaphorical Creativity: Towards A Model Of Analysing Metaphorical Creativity In Interactive Talk. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1128846
- Aljukić, L. (2020). Metaphorical creativity in british political discourse on Brexit ; Metaforička kreativnost u britanskom političkom diskursu o Brexitu.
- Constructional change in English : developments in allomorphy, word formation, and syntax, Hilpert, M., 2013
- Derivations : exploring the dynamics of syntax, Uriagereka, J., 2011
- Fournier, M., & Sales, A. (2007). Knowledge, Communication and Creativity. London: SAGE Publications Ltd. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=258458
- Introducing Syntax. (2017). Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsnar&AN=edsnar.oai.repository.ubn.ru.nl.2066.170565
- Margolin, J., Witztum, E., & Lerner, V. (2017). Genius, Creativity and Madness. Nova Science Publishers, Inc.
- Morphology in English : word formation in cognitive grammar, Hamawand, Z., 2011
- Pritzker, S. R., & Runco, M. A. (2011). Encyclopedia of Creativity (Vol. 2nd ed). San Diego: Academic Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=368694
- Rakhilina, E., Vyrenkova, A., & Polinsky, M. (2016). Linguistic Creativity in Heritage Speakers. https://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.90
- Sawyer, R. K. (2012). Explaining Creativity : The Science of Human Innovation (Vol. 2nd ed). New York: Oxford University Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=433909
- Seuren, P. A. M. (2018). Semantic Syntax (Vol. Second revised edition). Leiden: Brill. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1627187
- Uzzi, B., & Spiro, J. (2005). Collaboration and Creativity: The Small World Problem. American Journal of Sociology, 111(2), 447–504. https://doi.org/10.1086/432782
- Weisberg, R. W., & Reeves, L. (2013). Cognition : From Memory to Creativity. Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=531239
- YOKOTA Gerry. (2020). Featured Speaker Talk Metaphorical Creativity for Intercultural Communication.
Recommended Additional Bibliography
- Creative knowledge environments : the influences on creativity in research and innovation, , 2004
- Explaining creativity : the science of human innovation, Sawyer, R. K., 2012
- Exploding the creativity myth : the computational foundations of linguistic creativity, Veale, T., 2012
- Exploring creativity : evaluative practices in innovation, design, and the arts, , 2013
- Knowledge, communication and creativity, , 2007
- The international handbook of creativity, , 2006
- The invention of creativity : modern society and the culture of the new, Reckwitz, A., 2017
- The neuroscience of creativity, Abraham, A., 2019
- The Routledge companion to creativity, , 2009