Linguistic Creativity Research Articles

Idioms in Russian spontaneous speech used by non-native speakers: do they exist or not? (About the linguistic creativity of non-native speakers)

Idioms in Russian spontaneous speech used by non-native speakers: do they exist or not? (About the linguistic creativity of non-native speakers)

The name of a comedy film in the aspect of linguistic creativity

The article aims to identify the specific features for forming the name of a comedy film from the point of view of linguistic creativity. The research is based on 30 British comedy films, which were released between the 1960s and 2010s. Five highly rated films were selected from each decade. The developed algorithm for analysis includes several steps which makes it possible to sequentially study the following aspects, in terms of linguistic creativity, that are critical for specific features in the formation of comedy films’ names: 1) source of the name, 2) structure of the name and 3) correlation between the name and the whole verbal structure of a comedy film. It was found that the degree of structurally semantic modifications of a film name’s initial source presupposes a film name’s creative potential. The influence of comedy film names’ creative potential on the choice of certain expressive means for constructing and developing the plot line of a comedy film was also determined. Data obtained in the study indicates that a film name can produce a certain multitude of verbal components, which are pivotal to the whole language structure of a comedy film. Moreover, the quantity of verbal components, ‘produced’ by a comedy film name, allows one to judge its linguo-creative possibilities.

Code Mixing in Folk Songs: A Journey towards Linguistic Creativity

Folk song is a true gift of culture. It is one of the traditional, intangible and indigenous pieces of the art of performing the melodious expression with the help of soft pipes that are forever invaluable cultural assets and musical property as well. In view of making a brief survey of the use of multiple languages in folk songs, different folk melodies have been selected randomly from seven provinces of Nepal where the folk melodies are more fertile. This paper aims at exploring the use of multiple languages in folk songs I, myself as a researcher in the field, encountered with in written and audio- or video-recorded form. Therefore, the main source of relevant data includes me and other written and audio or video documents of folk songs I found. As a multicultural country, Nepal is rich in terms of its folk songs. In this paper, I analyze how folk song can be a creative space where linguistic boundaries are challenged and new language practices are invented. Taking of folk songs as a social and cultural identity, I examine how folk song embraces local diversity and redefines the use of language a creative tool for public.

Hybridity in Nepalese English

With its unprecedented spread globally, English has been diversified, nativized, and hybridized in different countries. In Nepal, English is code-mixed or hybridized as a result of its contact with the local languages, the bilinguals’ creativity, and the nativization by Nepalese English speakers. This qualitative content analysis paper attempts to describe hybridity in Nepalese English by bringing the linguistic examples from two anthologies of stories, two novels, five essays and two articles written in English by Nepalese writers, one news story published in the English newspaper, advertisements/banners, and diary entries, which were sampled purposively. The present study showed that hybridity is found in affixation, reduplication, compounding, blending, neologisms, and calques. Pedagogically, speakers of Nepalese English can utilize linguistic hybridization as a powerful tool to nativize English in the local contexts, exhibit hybrid identities and linguistic co-existence, exercise their bilingual linguistic creativity, reduce their linguistic anxiety, and maximize the linguistic economy.

Языковые технологии «антивирусной» социальной рекламы: от «Испанского гриппа» до “Covid-19”

The paper examines the degree of linguistic creativity in public service advertising (PSA) in the case study of “antiviral” campaigns. The article specifies three main groups of PSA texts that promote the fight against viruses throughout the 20th -21st centuries: 1) advertising of the 1910s – 20s about the prevention of the Spanish flu widespread in Europe, Russia and the USA; 2) the Avant-garde hygiene propaganda in the USSR in the 1920s, and 3) contemporary PSA on COVID-1. PSA of the early 20th century used mostly directive speech acts and imperative forms. In the texts of Soviet Avant-garde advertisement for hygiene, the use of neologisms and polysemy leads to an increase in the degree of linguistic creativity and the illocutionary effect of the message. The most common feature of the Year-2020 texts is the development of the semantic structure of words. The use of semantic structure as a way of language manipulation in contemporary antiviral advertising means a limited degree of “discursive creativity”, that is different from “linguistic creativity”. The paper distinguishes the main cognitive mechanisms of “antiviral” PSA: refocusing, or focus shifting, and zooming in, which encompass the lexical-semantic structure, including augmentative forms, concretization of meaning, enantiosemy (auto-antonym), and non-usual application of causative and non-causative verbs in the same context. The paper highlights the creation of special “virus words” (by analogy with “filler words”) in contemporary public service advertising that form slogans and mark the message as belonging to an “antiviral” campaign related to a “viral” discourse.

INTERNET COMMUNICATION AS A SOURCE OF NICKNAMES

The article considers the modern type of anthroponyms, which is actively used in the youth environment. In modern communication on the Internet, there are lexemes with the function of naming a person-nicknames used as nicknames. This work is devoted to the study of these language units. The names of chats of Russian-speaking Internet communication users served as the material for our research. The linguistic creativity of modern Internet users when creating nicknames expands the scope of well-known classifications, as a result of which the criteria for their selection are supplemented. The basis for the classification of nicknames in this work are: features of appearance and character; preferences, Hobbies, occupation; symbolism associated with a particular animal, etc.; mythologems; graphics; wordplay; situational. These criteria cannot limit the classification, which remains open and is constantly updated. The allocation data and the new criteria due to linguistic and creative activities of users in the field of Internet communication.

Factors Associated in EFL Learning Process Bachelor’s Degree in education at UNAPEC University, Dominican Republic

Education in the Dominican Republic is regulated by the Ministry of Education, in accordance with the General Education Law 66-97, which guarantees the right of all the inhabitants of the Dominican Republic to education. In pre-university level curricular design, English is one of the nine subjects taught in public school, so that learning English from an early age (5th grade of primary school) is part of the purpose. of said design. Dominican schools, however, most public schools begin their first contact with the English language, students are approximately between 9 and 10 years old, which translates into a certain delay in coming into contact with this language. According to what was published on February 11, 2013 by the Ministry of Education of the Dominican Republic entitled: «Identification of advances in the scientific and literary disciplines associated with the area of Foreign Languages that must be taken into account for the revision and updating of the curriculum . », Final Product, it is proposed that learning foreign languages responds to a fundamental need in the training of the citizen of these times, since it develops the communicative competence of students so that they can understand and express themselves efficiently, orally and in writing, with members of other societies in different contexts. Likewise, respect and appreciation of one's own cultural identity and that of other societies, as well as plurality, both in the local and global environment, is encouraged. Likewise, learning a foreign language contributes to the personal development of students because: It facilitates the search and processing of information and a more efficient use of Information and Communication Technologies. -It expands the cultural universe of the individual, by enabling greater exchanges of artistic, scientific, historical and technological productions that humanity has been building. It facilitates access to more and better opportunities in the educational, labor and professional areas. -Favors the development of linguistic and met linguistic awareness, concept formation, logical reasoning, creativity, and skills. All these reasons create the perfect environment so that the development of language skills is of vital importance not only for students, but for all Dominican citizens.

Guerrilla fan translation, language learning, and metalinguistic discussion in a Catalan-speaking community of gamers

AbstractDriven by their affinity to popular culture, fans frequently engage in linguistic practices that may be conducive to language learning. This study seeks to find out how a group of Catalan-speaking gamers decided to start producing fan translations of video games from English into Catalan. Based on a digital ethnography (online interviews and observation of the group’s activity), two types of analysis were conducted: a content analysis for recurrent trends and a focused analysis of internal metalinguistic discussions on the quality of translations. Results indicate that fan translators (1) organize hierarchically with set roles and functions, (2) curate their group identity and care for the promotion of Catalan as a vehicle for cultural production, (3) learn language incidentally in three ways:while translating(ensuring the comprehension of English and the linguistic quality and creativity of the transfer into Catalan),through sharing language doubtswith their peers on their Telegram group and dialogically agreeing on pragmatically acceptable English-Catalan translations, andthrough metalinguistic discussionson translation tests received from potential new members. The study resonates with a novel subfield in computer-assisted language learning: language learning in the digital wilds, which might be fertile ground for studies on incidental and informal language learning online. The study may also serve as inspiration for effective integration of translation into language classrooms in a manner that bridges vernacular fan translation and pedagogic translation, considering the importance of metalinguistic discussion for language learning and the sociocultural dimension of both translation and language learning.

ЯЗЫКОВАЯ ИГРА В АСПЕКТЕ ТРАНСЛИНГВИЗМА

Statement of the problem. The problem of studying the language of emigrants has a special importance at present characterized by the growth of interaction and cultural contacts between countries and peoples. Along with a large number of articles devoted to the language of translingual writers, the works on the analysis of the play on words in the texts by modern authors are quite rare now, and they do not completely describe the problem of the functional significance of this phenomenon, which determined the purpose of this article − to study the play on words as a linguocultural phenomenon in the texts by contemporary emigrant writers. Methodology (materials and methods) in the article is based on the analysis and generalization of articles devoted to the problem of translingual literature done by Russian and foreign linguists from the point of view of linguocultural analysis of the text, component analysis of the semantic structure of lexical units and synchronous comparison of linguistic units belonging to different systems. Research results. After the analytical review of the literature on the topic of the research, the concept of translingvema was studied, the types of translingvemas used by the authors for play on words were identified. The analysis of the play on words in the texts by modern writers who combine elements of various language systems in their works is done. It was concluded that the linguocreative activity of emigrant writers reflects not only the nominative and communicative ideas of the authors, but also conveys additional shades of meanings and the authors’ attitude to the ideas described. Conclusion. The play on words in translingual literature has a special character, it differs from the individual word usage of emigrants, on the one hand, and from the work by monolingual authors, on the other. It is based on linguistic creativity, the desire to achieve a certain effect, to convey additional connotations, which is achieved by violating the normative traditional usage, creating non-standard use of linguistic means with the help of various language systems.

Лексические инновации в мемосфере: названия мемных жанров

The development of the Internet gave life to Internet memes. Their diversity and rapid growth contributed to the formation of the memosphere, the development of which is accompanied by the emergence of lexical innovations. These include language memes and the names of meme genres. All of them are the result of linguistic creativity, which in relation to the names of meme genres, covers several stages: English loanwords for the name of the meme genre, their adaptation in Russian, changes in semantics, and preference for specific neologisms. The concept of lexical innovation was apprehended on the foundation of Markovsky’s concept. The study of lexical innovations was carried out within the framework of the structural-semantic direction, as well as on the basis of the theory of Kotelova and the concepts of Rakhmanova and Suzdaltseva. Studies have shown that semantic changes in the names of meme genres are associated with a denotation change. Changes in the semantics of word loaning are very dynamic as English loanwords enable the swift naming of new realities. This tendency towards the internationalization of vocabulary is related to the Internet and the memosphere. The obtained results fill the gap in the study of vocabulary related to the memosphere. A few studies of meme genres relate to their description and analysis, yet do not focus on the semantic and graphic modification of loanwords. This work presents the unprecedented mechanisms and stages of the formation of meme genres names.

Conceptual Metaphor «Human Being – Nature» In Literary Text: Pragmatics and Functions

The relevance of the study is determined by the anthropocentrism of the modern scientific paradigm of linguistics and the need to establish correlations of the constituents of linguistic consciousness and objects of the external world in the structuring and functioning of the conceptual metaphor in the literary text. Conceptual metaphor is a mental topological projection of interacting areas of linguistic consciousness and the surrounding world. The purpose of the article is to study the functional and pragmatic potential of metaphorical models built on the basis of the conceptual metaphor «Human Being – Nature» in a literary text. The material for the study was the literary texts of the novels of I.S. Turgenev’s “Rudin”, “Fathers and Sons”, “Smoke”, “Virgin Soil”, containing representative metaphorical micro and macro contexts. The complex of research methods includes the method of continuous sampling, deductive-inductive method, conceptual analysis, and the method of linguistic interpretation. The functions of metaphorical contexts, which are based on the conceptual metaphor Human - Nature, consist in the possibility of representing the inner world of characters, their general cultural potential, social status and origin; the use of metaphors in the speech of characters (external and internal) allows us to talk about the figurative perception of the world by these heroes, about the level of their emotionality and linguistic creativity, since metaphors are a kind of human thinking patterns. Analysis of the implementation of the conceptual metaphor «Human Being- Nature» in a literary text allows one to discover and describe the priority cognitive structures of the author’s linguistic consciousness and values inherent in the individual author’s picture of the world. Research prospects are in the possibility of identifying priority conceptual metaphors in the individual author’s picture of the world on the basis of literary texts in order to identify and describe the dominants of linguistic consciousness and the value picture of the world of a particular author

Blending is creative, but blendedness is not — a response to Mark Turner

AbstractThis short response to Mark Turner’s article on “Construction and creativity” takes the idea of blending — which is at the centre of Turner’s argument — a step further and shows how it can be applied to syntactic analysis. Furthermore, it distinguishes between blendedness and blending, discussing the relevance of these concepts with respect to their relevance with respect to linguistic creativity.

Countering COVID-19-related anti-Chinese racism with translanguaged swearing on social media

Abstract The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has generated a spectacular rise in social media communication and an unprecedented avalanche of global conversation. This paper traces the emergence of the racist term “Chinese virus” used by the President of the United States, Donald Trump, on the Western social media platform Twitter and its reception and recontextualization on Chinese social media. Creative bilingual responses fusing English and Chinese resulted in a popular searchable meme “#用中式英语跨文化交流#” (“#Chinglish used for cross-cultural communication#”), on Weibo, a Chinese social media platform. Such linguistic creativity involves a variation of swears to mock and condemn the racist phrase. Formally, linguistic practices such as self-coinage, transliteration, verbal repetition, and acronyms can be observed. Functionally, the recontexualizations evidence a defensive ideology linked to nationalism and modernism. Ultimately, combatting the English racist term “Chinese virus” with a creative mixture of English and Chinese demonstrates how English has become ever more decentered during the COVID-19 pandemic.

ЯЗЫКОВЫЕ СРЕДСТВА ВЫРАЗИТЕЛЬНОСТИ АНГЛОЯЗЫЧНОГО БИЗНЕС-ТВИТТЕРА

Научная новизна работы заключается в попытке выделить характерные частотные механизмы лингвистической креативности бизнес-пользователей «Твиттера», такие как аббревиация, неологизация, релексикализация, блендинг, экспрессивно-оценочные средства. Актуальность настоящего исследования заключается в выявлении языковых механизмов лингвистической креативности «Бизнес-Твиттера». Задачей данного исследования является раскрытие функциональных и жанрообразующих характеристик микроблога «Твиттер».Целью данного исследования является выявление и классификация языковой специфики «Бизнес-Твиттера» как одного из наиболее значимых компонентов интернет-коммуникации, комплексный анализ функциональных особенностей англоязычного речевого поведения предпринимателей и управленцев в «Бизнес-Твиттере».Материалы и методы исследования. Выявление, систематизация и анализ исследования были проведены с привлечением методов: сплошной выборки, сопоставительного и сравнительного анализа, дескриптивного и дефиниционного методов, а также лингвопрагматического анализа и основных положений критического дискурс-анализа.Результаты. Автор приходит к выводу, что экспрессивно-оценочные средства делают язык и речь в «Бизнес-Твиттере» более емкими за счет экономии языковых средств и влияет на ассоциативное мышление потребителя, его эмоции и воображение.Область применения результатов. Результаты исследования могут быть использованы в курсах по языкознанию, стилистике английского языка, лексикологии английского языка; в спецкурсах по виртуальному жанроведению и основам компьютерной лингвистики. Результаты работы могут быть применимы как к улучшению языковой политики уже существующих бизнес-аккаунтов компаний в «Твиттере», так и к созданию новых.

Cognitive Basis of Making Creative Decisions in Translation Activities

The purpose of the paper is to model the cognitive mechanism of generating creative elements in translation activities that are increasingly relevant in the context of modern requirements for the translator's work. The authors systematize, refine and supplement the available theoretical knowledge about translation creativity. The authors describe the available results of searching for creativity in target texts. The paper provides a cognitive mechanism scheme that launches creative ideas in translation activities. It works by constructing a cognitive focus – a sort of conscious reasonable integration of cognitive orientations, translation strategies and mental operations, actualizing weak associative links between mental representations available in the information field of the translation subject, in most cases leads to making creative translation decisions that require high efforts. The results of the study showed that translation creativity goes beyond the limits of linguistic creativity, and is realized both with the help of linguistic (ready-made speech word forms or new word-formations), and paralinguistic (color gamut, etc.). The examples considered in the article show that modulation and "thinking transcription" are the most productive mental operations of generating creative translation decisions. Strategies for domestication and transcreation also contribute most to the development of translation creativity.

Speakers are creative, within limits — a response to Peter Uhrig

Abstract In his contribution to the present volume, Uhrig (2020. Cognitive Semiotics 13, 1) focusses on an interesting question: When is a novel utterance considered “creative” and when is it seen as “wrong?” As I will show, Uhrig offers many important answers to this question. At the same time, I argue 1) that deliberateness is not (always) important for linguistic creativity; 2) that appropriateness requires a closer look; and 3) that frequency does not (always) play the most important role.

LINGUOCULTURAL ANALYSIS OF TOPONYMICAL PERIPHRASES IN PERU

This article focuses on linguistic and cultural aspects of Peruvian toponymical periphrases through the analysis of the linguistic material and surveying native speakers of the Peruvian national variant of Spanish language as informants. The motivation and structure of Peruvian toponymical periphrases is analyzed from the semiotic point of view. The most frequently used lexemes in the formation of the periphrases are classified by their meaning. The complex analysis of 70 toponymical periphrases for Peruvian cities shows the richness of motivating features and proves that they create emotional and evaluative parallels for traditional toponyms. Such components as ciudad, tierra, capital, sede, cuna, joya, perla are recognized as onomastic dominants in Peruvian toponymical periphrases. The authors also put emphasis on homonymic coincidences of toponymical periphrases in Peru and in the neighbouring countries like Venezuela, Columbia, Ecuador and Brazil.The similarities in the motivation of South American toponyms are classified as: associations with ancient European cities (Rome, Athens, Sevilla, London); associations with climatic conditions (viento, eterno); signs of local industrial development, characteristics and achievements of the population; self-perceptions (loyalty and devotion, cordiality and hospitality, friendliness). The derivation of parameters of toponymical linguistic creativity of South Americans in general is considered as possible scientific perspective.

PECULIARITIES OF FORMATION AND FUNCTIONING OF CREATIVITY AS A LINGUISTIC PHENOMENON

Objective. The objective of the research is to establish patterns, factors of influence and cause and effect in the processes of formation and realization of creativity, linguistics in particular. Methods. The authors apply the following scientific methods: theoretical — analysis and synthesis, analogy and thought experiment, practical — analysis of scientific literature, on the basis of which conclusions based on the laws, factors of influence and cause and effect in the processes of formation and realization of creativity, linguistic in particular. Results. Creativity is an important characteristic of the modern world, the «driving force» of progress. It implies a tendency to perceive a particular issue from a different angle, with a departure from the traditional norms of worldview. Creativity is seen as the ability to realize creativity. The factors of formation of the phenomenon of creativity are the factors of the system «4 P»: creative personality, creative process, creative press, creative product. Creativity as a creative activity is divided into several stages: perception of the problem, finding a solution, the emergence and formulation of hypotheses, testing the hypotheses, modifying them and obtaining the result. The level of creativity depends largely on the type of dominant intelligence in the individual. The linguistic kind of intelligence, including linguistic, foreign-language, literary and oratorical subspecies, determines the level of development of creative-linguistic abilities. Linguistic talent is an element of linguistic creativity. This category is defined as the synthesis of linguistic abilities, motivation and auxiliary factors for the development of talent. Linguistic creativity is realized through the formation of communicative strategies, the content of which takes into account the originality, effectiveness and social acceptability of material presentation. Therefore, linguistic creativity is an important subspecies of creativity that is pervasive throughout the world.

Функции языковой игры в парфюмерном дискурсе

The article considers language game in perfume lovers’ Internet commentaries as a form of linguistic creativity in the thematic discourse. The research objective includes identifying specificity of using language game techniques in this genre of perfumery discourse. Scientific originality of the paper lies in the fact that functions of language game are analysed from the viewpoint of their role in achieving authors’ basic communicative purposes: to transfer olfactory impressions and to express personal attitude to an aroma. The research findings are as follows: the authors identify the basic and additional functions of language game in the perfumery discourse, describe means and techniques for their realization in the sphere of Internet communication.

Traducir las escrituras desterritorializadas: del elogio de la creolidad del autor al elogio de la marginalidad del traductor

This paper offers an analysis of heterolingualism and translation in La grande drive des esprits by Gisèle Pineau (1993) and its Spanish translation, Una antigua maldición (1999). Based on the literary theories around Creoleness and on the theories of translation centered on a "new translation ethics", it analyzes heteroligualism and "writing-translation" in Pineau's work looking at the various mechanisms deployed in its Spanish translation, which privileges linguistic creativity. The paper has a dual goal: (1) to characterize the language of Pineau's work as deterritorialized in order to identify the ways in which the creole language is inserted in it and allows the author, along the lines of the creolists' ethical and aesthetic proposals, to offer a language of resistance against hegemonic colonial language uses; and (2) to examine the translation techniques employed and bring forth theoretical adaptations fitting to analyze this type of translation. The paper concludes with a reflection of the translator's possibilities to retain or "recreate" (marginalize?) the heterolingualism of the original work.  Key words: heterolingualism; writing-translation; creole; linguistic recreation; marginalization