Discourse and Creativity - Softcover

Jones, Rodney

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1408251884 ISBN 13: 9781408251881

Verlag: Routledge, 2012

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Discourse and Creativity examines the way different approaches to discourse analysis conceptualize the notion of creativity and address it analytically. It includes examples of studies of creativity from a variety of traditions and examines the following key areas, how people interpret and use discourse, the processes and practices of discourse production, discourse in modes other than written and spoken language, and the relationship between discourse and the technologies used to produce it. Discourse and Creativity combines a forward-thinking and interdisciplinary approach to the topic of creativity; this collection will be of great value to students and scholars in applied linguistics, stylistics, and communication studies.

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Rodney Jones is the Associate Head of the Department of English at the City University of Hong Kong.

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Bringing together the perspectives of thirteen internationally renowned scholars, this ground-breaking new collection examines two of the most exciting areas in the interdisciplinary study of language and communication. Exploring how different approaches to discourse analysis conceptualise the notion of creativity, each chapter sets out how creativity will be defined and approached.

This book is divided into four parts - literary creativity, workplace creativity, multimodal creativity and creativity and technology - and examines the following key ideas:

·        How people interpret and use discourse

·        The processes and practices of discourse production

·        Discourse in modes other than written and spoken language

·        The relationship between discourse and the technologies used to produce it

Discourse and Creativity combines a forward-thinking and interdisciplinary approach to the topic of creativity; this collection will be of great value to students and scholars in applied linguistics, stylistics, and communication studies.

Rodney Jones is the Associate Head of the Department of English at the City University of Hong Kong.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Routledge
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1408251884
• ISBN 13: 9781408251881
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 264
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