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Direct linkCarter, Ronald; McCarthy, Michael – Applied Linguistics, 2004
When creative uses of spoken language have been investigated, the main examples have been restricted to particular contexts such as narrative and related story-telling genres. This paper reports on an initial investigation using the 5 million word CANCODE corpus of everyday spoken English and discusses a range of social contexts in which creative…
Descriptors: Creativity, Social Environment, Oral Language, Applied Linguistics
