Linguistic Creativity Research Articles

Лингвокогнитивные основания интеграции поэтического текста в кинодискурс

The article delves into the intricacies of integrating poetic texts into the discourse of au­thorial cinema. It begins by examining the multifaceted interaction between cinema and poet­ry within contemporary artistic culture, framing author cinematography through the lens of the poetic concept. Intermediality and interdiscursivity are explored as intrinsic properties of cinema, serving as tools for shaping the unique style and aesthetics of filmmakers. Two films, “Stalker” by Andrei Tarkovsky and “Ugly Swans” by Konstantin Lopushansky, are selected as primary sources for analysis due to their continuity and innovative qualities. The research employs a comprehensive methodology, including parameterization of linguistic creativity, corpus annotation, and conceptual analysis of verbal and non-verbal elements that contribute to the films’ poetics. Data processing techniques are then applied to interpret the findings. The study uncovers both similarities and differences in the approaches of the two filmmakers to incorporating poetic material into their works. It concludes that the integration of poetic texts into films serves as a mechanism for eliciting a unique psycho-emotional response from viewers, facilitating their engagement with the filmmaker’s ideological concepts.

Дефекты оптики в лирике В. Набокова французского периода

The paper considers the poems of Vladimir Nabokov from the late 1930s. The lyrics reflect the writer’s experiments with the possibilities of language to convey the subjective experience of the artist. These texts referred to the French period are characterized by objectively “clear” optics. The poems “Oko” (“Oculus”) and “Chto za noch’ s pamyat’yu sluchilos’” (“What happened overnight”) utilize apophatic definitions and interrogative sentences to indicate the possibility of verbalizing the supersensual experience without linguistic constraints. The endeavor to express transcendental sensations through language invokes linguistic creativity and references to other literary works. The aesthetic framework established by Nabokov necessitates a state of reflective silence when perceiving his brilliant poetry, which is distinguished by the verbalization of unrecognized shades, sounds, and odors. Nabokov actualizes the metalinguistics ability of the artistic word to convey the specific sensorial characteristics of poetic inspiration and to possess its own referential memory. The study reveals how Nabokov employs references to his and other works to emphasize the artistic quality of optical aberrations. During the late 1930s, prior to transitioning to English, Nabokov focuses on the sensorial, mnemonic, and language mistakes and neutralizes the boundaries between the discourses, genres, epic, and lyrics. The wide literary context highlights the transgressive and conflict nature of V. Nabokov’s works of the French period. This background encompasses the early poems by Nabokov, works of contemporary émigré poets such as V. Hodasevich, G. Ivanov, G. Adamovich, and classical Russian poetry by A. Pushkin and V. Zhukovsky.

Emotive units in the cinematic discourse from the position of linguistic creativity (the case study of films in English, Russian and Chinese)

The article aims at developing the approach to the study of the interlanguage specifics of the realization of the creative potential of emotive vocabulary in multimodal (cinematic) discourse. The starting point is the identification of a range of key issues in the modern study of various means and ways of conceptualizing emotions in language and discourse. The principles of selection of film material, which are films in English, Russian and Chinese, are described in detail. Special attention is paid to the description of the method of parametrization of linguistic creativity in discourse and the justification for the allocation of such a linguocreative parameter as “emotive and expressive units”. The frequency of activation of the parameter under study is determined. Word-formation (or structural), grammatical and semantic characteristics of units representing emotions and feelings of film characters are consistently analyzed. The use of the developed complex methodology has resulted in establishing the role of units denoting emotions and feelings in the construction of the verbal system of films in English, Russian and Chinese. Based on the comparison an interlanguage emotive profile is formed. The profile reflects the methods, aspects and criteria for evaluating the manifestation of the creative potential of emotive vocabulary relevant to films in languages of different systems. The dependence of the manifestation of the creative potential of emotive units on their structural, grammatical and semantic properties due to the specifics of the language system that is used to create a specific film production is established.

САМОИДЕНТИФИКАЦИЯ ВИРТУАЛЬНОЙ ЯЗЫКОВОЙ ЛИЧНОСТИ: АНАЛОГИЯ В АВТОНЕЙМИНГЕ (НА МАТЕРИАЛЕ АНГЛОЯЗЫЧНЫХ ИНТЕРНЕТ-РЕСУРСОВ)

The article deals with the analysis of the role of the cognitive mechanism of analogy in the process of auto-naming - the creation of a virtual name for the self-identification of a linguistic persona in the act of Internet communication. The author believes that, on the one hand, the role of analogy lies in the dissemination and subsequent replication of word-formation models existing in modern English in the field of virtual communication. On the other hand, according to the author, analogy ensures the linguistic creativity of a linguistic persona in the process of generating a virtual name.

영어교육에서 내러티브를 통한 평가의 이론적 근거

As narrative has become an integral part of English language education, it should also be regarded as an essential component of English language assessment. To create assessment items/tasks and utilize them for teaching, it is necessary to systematically define the purpose of assessment and the assessment construct, build an assessment system, and validate it through a rigorous procedure of evidence collection and evaluation. The key lies in solidifying the theoretical foundation for the assessment before designing and creating a series of assessment tasks. This paper starts with the role of narrative in English language teaching, discusses linguistic creativity, and examines the purpose and application of narrative-based English language assessment. In addition, this paper investigates how narrative can be used for assessment in practice in English education. As creativity and aesthetic sensitivity have become established as core competencies in the English curriculum reform, the use of narrative is expected to receive increasingly more attention. In particular, the creative aspect of language skills such as forming and understanding new sentences should be emphasized.

Lexico-grammatical, syntactic and compositional features of popular science texts by Taras Luty

The article touches upon the issue of the functioning printed and digital scientific information in modern Ukrainian mass media. The genre of essay as a popular form of dissemination of scientific information is considered. Due to this research we also join the discussion about the need to reform the scientific and functional variety of the modern Ukrainian literary language. The purpose of the article is to study the lexical, grammatical, syntactic and compositional specifics and linguistic creativity of popular science texts on the example of Taras Luty’s philosophical essays published in the weekly Ukrainian Week. Various research methods are employed in the study: the method of linguistic description and observation, the descriptive method, which provides the inventory of selected units, their segmentation, classification and interpretation, as well as the functional-stylistic method. Conclusions are made on the basis of the analysis of 111 texts.

Вербальні ідентифікатори ворога: культуромовні й деестетизовані моделі

The article is devoted to the study of verbal identifiers of the enemy, their ranking in terms of normativity / abnormality of public communication is shown, and distinguished are stylistically neutral and stylistically colored language units. Described are the secondary nominations with negative connotations, as well as determining their communicative and pragmatic load. Achieving the goal was facilitated by the use of a descriptive method, methods of observation, contextual‑semantic and complex analysis. The corpus of the research material were national Ukrainian and regional mass media texts from 2022 to the beginning of 2023. It was found that during the specified time period, the linguistic identifiers of the invaders, which do not violate the canons of written forms of newspaper journalism, were activated. The secondary nominations are aimed at the expressiveness of language expression, the expression of contempt and hatred for one’s enemies and the creation of a specific communicative and pragmatic effect, which, although deaestheticizing the journalistic space, does reorganize the established media space, clearly reflecting the social perception of Ukrainians to the realities of the Russian‑Ukrainian war. The linguistic creativity of Ukrainian journalists expresses a combination of pathos and irony, usually employed to humiliate the Russian enemy.

Solidarity-Based Content Sharing on Social Media: A Closer Look at the Language Style among Millennial Social Platform Users

Social Media platforms have shaped diverse linguistic issues through informal language use, language adaptation and change, linguistic creativity and global communication. The current study reveals the issues about investigating about language style and linguistic form of solidarity expression used by the millennial community on social media platforms. Thirty respondents who aged about 23-43 years old considered as millennial participated in this study and inquired through open-ended questionnaire. The data was probed by using grounded theory proposed by Creswell. The findings exposed that language style were realized for certain communication purposes and based-social context oriented, solidarity expression was shown through a different linguistic form to reveal ideas, feeling, empathy, caring, respect, moral justice and kinds of arguments. after deeply investigated, there were four types of language styles that are dominantly used by millennial on this social media platform, namely formal language style, informal language style, slang language style and colloquial language style, unfortunately, many people abuse social media as a platform for venting their anger and their disappointment by using disrespectful language and behaviors are frequently observed online. Consequently, this scholarly paper also provides advice on the user of social media platform must possess a range of skills including linguistic knowledge, sociocultural knowledge, and the ability to use language in appropriate ways depending on the specific communicative context.

Linguocreative word-formation devices in political anthroponyms (the case of English internet memes)

The article looks at the linguocreative word-formation devices in political anthroponyms within the context of English internet memes. The research is relevant due to the existing necessity to thoroughly research linguistic creativity at the level of word formation in English internet communication. The methods used in the research include collecting and analysing empirical material, word formation analysis, definitional analysis, linguocreative analysis, discourse analysis, linguocultural analysis, semantic analysis. The results of the research show that such linguocreative word formation devices as the generation of linguocreative occasional telescopic lexemes derived from two derivational bases, linguocreative transformations of anthroponyms based on paronymic attraction and language game with abbreviations are widely spread in English memes. Telescopy is a word formation process which involves generating a linguocreative occasional lexeme derived from two anthroponyms. Linguocreative transformations of anthroponyms based on paronymic attraction entail the deformation of an anthroponym in order to show resemblance to a similar word for creating a pragmatic effect. Language game with abbreviations functions as a linguocreative ‘decoding’ of a political anthroponym, as a result of which the author provides the recipient with an original and usually humorous interpretation of the precedent name. According to the research, the derivatives, generated with the help of the above mentioned devices, have broad semantics, connotations and pragmatic underpinning. To conclude, English internet memes act as a platform for linguocreative word formation processes, furthermore, political anthroponyms have a strong linguocreative potential. The results obtained in the research can be successfully applied in the educational process on the theoretical level and in English language teaching.

ПРАГМАТИЧЕСКИЕ АСПЕКТЫ ЛИНГВОКРЕАТИВНОСТИ В ПОЛИТИЧЕСКОМ ДИСКУРСЕ АНГЛОЯЗЫЧНЫХ СМИ

The purpose of the research is to identify the discursive and pragmatic reasons for linguistic creativity in political media discourse. The author of the article defines the types of linguistic creativity in the political discourse of English media, reveals the influence of both pragmatic factors and modern English communication on the emergence of linguocreatems. The scientific novelty of the research is related to the desire to determine the linguistic creativity usage patterns in the political discourse of English media. The results of the research show that the reasons for linguistic creativity in the political media discourse are due to linguistic, communicative, socio-political factors.

Orthographic Analysis of Social Media Discourse: The Case of WhatsApp Messages of Undergraduate Students at the National University of Lesotho

This paper examined the orthography of words used by the National University of Lesotho undergraduate students on WhatsApp. Although language is regarded as a coherent and homogeneous system, it can also be studied in its variations across time and space and how it is actually used in social interaction. Youth immersion in the use of social media has successfully made the presence of the digital era to be felt not only in social life but also in communicative competencies. This paper recognised the youth linguistic creativity as a concept that characterised nomenclature of spelling conventions observed on social media. Using voluntary participatory approach, data was collected from undergraduate students majoring in English at the University who volunteered to share their WhatsApp posts for the purpose of this study. Data revealed that youths’ social media discourse featured different orthographic representations as a result of accent stylisation, substitution, acronym, hybrid, clipping, coalescence, onomatopoeic spellings and deletions. The paper concluded that youth social media discourse deviates from conventional spellings, and thus serves as a linguistic innovation from the part of the youths. It further concluded that social media discourse is a true reflection of language diversity in this digital era especially with regards to the language of the youth globally.

Юмористические средства в политических интернет-мемах (на материале немецкого языка)

The study aims to identify the humorous means of Internet memes that reflect the socio-political moods of German residents. In the course of the study, topical political humorous German-language Internet memes were selected and an analysis of the verbal and visual means reflecting the (linguo-)creative potential of Internet users when creating a humorous effect was carried out. The scientific novelty of the study lies in the fact that it represents the first attempt to conduct such an analysis. As a result, it has been proved that Internet users employ original visual and verbal components based on humorous means to create political memes. It has been found that the visual component, as well as puns, coinage of new words or expressions based on the names of leading politicians are the main manifestations of (linguistic) creativity. It has been noted that a political Internet meme is a socio-cultural phenomenon that reflects the socio-political sentiments of a certain society and is understandable only to those who are familiar with the socio-political realities and culture of this society.

Socio-cultural conditions for public political rhetoric in the Italian language of the 19th–21st centuries (lexical aspect)

One of the main structural units of the political discourse of any language is its socio-political vocabulary, which is an integral part of the lexical system of the language reflecting a combination of the political and social characteristics of society. Such a complex of lexical units is designed not only to convey to the audience the views of any politician, but also to affect the society through vibrant and clear speech patterns determined by existing ideological values. The socio-political vocabulary is inevitably transformed following the changes in the domestic and foreign policy of the country. This evolutionary process brings neologisms, some of which are firmly fixed in the language. This article is an attempt to evaluate the influence of the historical context on the evolution of the socio-political vocabulary of the Italian language through the examination of a number of its key features which reflect certain milestones of the country’s development and history. It considers the most vivid and widely used political terms, which are products of the linguistic creativity of statesmen in various periods of Italian history since the emergence of the single state in 1861 to the present day. The paper analyzes the factors that had a direct impact on the formation of these lexical units and the connection between personal characteristics of certain Italian politicians with their choice of terms intended to appeal both to their supporters and opponents. The article describes some aspects of the transformation process of the political language into popular language designed to ensure effective communication with the electorate.

Ontological Metaphors and Interdiscursivity/ Recontextualization in Iranians’ Political Comments on Instagram

With the significance that linguistic or discursive creativity has achieved in the last decade, it becomes incumbent on researchers to examine this phenomenon in political discourse in varying contexts. Therefore, in this study, the researchers sought to examine five ontological metaphors (at a linguistic/pragmatic level) as well as interdiscursivity and recontextualization (at a discourse analytical level) in Instagram comments in the Iranian context. Accordingly, the researchers employed Al-Hindawi and Al-Saate’s (2016) model of ontological metaphors as well as Jones’ (2010) interdiscursivity and recontextualization as discursive strategies. The analysis of Instagram comments indicated that overall Iranian social media users drew on various types of ontological metaphor in their Instagram comments. More specifically, among the ontological metaphors, metonymy and idiomatic expressions were the most commonly used metaphorical strategies followed by simile, with hyperbole and personification being the least frequently utilized metaphors. Additionally, results indicated the Iranians users’ resort to interdiscursivity and recontextualization as discursive strategies in their attempt to bring about political and social change. More specifically, the users employed ideas from various discourses such as sports, religion and literature to emphasize the need for political and social change. The findings may have implications for linguists, discourse analysts, politicians, and pragmaticians.

Linguistic Inventiveness, Creativity, and Variation in Taufiq Rafat’s Poems: A Stylistic Study

The current study attempted to analyze the poetic style of Taufiq Rafat. The study focused on Rafat's poetic originality, uniqueness, and grammatical inconsistencies. The qualitative, analytical, and theoretical aspects of this research were analyzed as well. In order to properly and efficiently conduct the study, only a handful of Rafat's poems were selected for analysis and the concentration remained solely on lexical level. The investigation focused on few specific poems of Rafat including Village Girl, Classmate, A Middle-Class Drawing Room, and Once Upon a Time. Leech and Short (1981) models were used to comprehend Rafat's style and how expertly and artistically he handles language to accomplish his objectives and expectations. For academics interested in linguistic and stylistic analysis along with language element identification in any literary text, especially Rafat's poetry, this study is crucial. The study concluded that Rafat used relatively identical stylistic elements. Although, some similarity in the basic form of the poems resulted to deviations and innovations in a few verses while reflecting distinctive and diverse, different and unique meanings along with interpretations in each of his poems.

The DAIS-C: A small, specialised, spoken, schizophrenia corpus

This paper describes the design and development of the DAIS-C (Discussing Abstract Ideas in Schizophrenia Corpus), a small, specialised corpus of spoken language in which speakers with a diagnosis of schizophrenia and those with no self-reported psychiatric or neuroleptic history were interviewed on the same topics. The corpus was constructed to allow for comparative analyses of speech behaviour in relation to linguistic creativity and formal thought disorder (FTD), but additional steps were taken to ensure that the corpus could be of use to other researchers and research questions. The present paper covers design decisions relevant to the construction of clinical corpora alongside information about the corpus of potential use to researchers interested in its use.

On English proverb variation from the perspective of linguistic creativity.

Proverbs are usually regarded as structurally fixed expressions. However, in daily communication, language users often change them to suit their communicative purposes in many ways, resulting in proverb variations. Using the data from the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA corpus), this study attempts to present varieties of the English proverb "There are two sides to every coin" and explain the variations from the perspective of linguistic creativity. This study also explores the variations of this proverb in EFL learners' use via the data from Chinese EFL learners' corpus TECCL. The study shows that, first proverb use can roughly be divided into two types: canonical and non-canonical uses, each having three ways of alteration, i.e., addition of modifiers, substitution of content words, and reduction. Second, Chinese EFL learners tend to use the proverb in a mechanical way with little variation, which shows their inflexible use of proverbs. Finally, proverb variation by nature is the creative manipulation of language use to fit the context, which is a form of linguistic creativity that reflects the cognitive creativity of human beings.

CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES APPLICATION IN THE PROCESS OF TEACHING A FOREIGN LANGUAGE

Objective. The objective of the article is to consider and analyze creative pedagogical technologies for the developing foreign language communicative competence; identifying their main characteristics; familiarization with heuristic learning technologies and their classifications; consideration of examples of the use of language and group creative games as methods of creative writing and heuristic methods in the process of learning a foreign language. Methods. The main scientific results are obtained using such research methods as analysis of psychological and pedagogical literature, generalization of best practices and observation. Results. Based on the fact that creative technologies for teaching a foreign language will contribute to the development of students' creative thinking and their linguistic creativity, and will ensure a high level of foreign language communicative competence, the author comes to the conclusion that the development of students' linguistic creativity can be carried out on the basis of creative writing technologies, which will contribute to the removal of psychological barriers and will stimulate students' creative thinking when completing written tasks. Heuristic learning technologies have a huge potential for the development of creativity, the main characteristics of which are: openness, problematic, lack of a known solution in advance and reliance on the student's creative potential. The technologies of heuristic foreign language learning for future specialists include heuristic methods of learning an object, identifying its main features, and heuristic methods of transforming the features of an object and creating a new object. The presented heuristic techniques can be used in foreign language classes in different versions depending on the type of communication skills that the class is aimed at developing.

Linguistic creativity and multimodal tropes in cinematic discourse

The present article explores the creative potential of language that is realized in cinematic discourse and is based on the case study of eight popular Soviet comedy films of the 1960s with the overall running time of 670 minutes. The choice of this period is determined by the sociohistorical relevance of the sixties in the development of Russian culture and cinematic art. The goals of this paper are to identify and categorize the verbal means that trigger the creation of cinematic tropes, and to define the transformations that these verbal means acquire as a result of their involvement into constructing cinematic figurativeness. To achieve these goals, a complex methodology has been elaborated. It includes three stages of analysis and rests on conceptions that have been recently developed in linguistics, film studies, and research on multimodality. According to research findings, cinematic figurativeness originates in two kinds of verbal means. Non-figurative verbal means (i.e. words used in their literal meanings; free word-combinations, etc.) and figurative verbal means (i.e. literary metaphors; idioms, etc.) are employed for the creation of three kinds of cinematic tropes: cinematic metonymies, cinematic metaphors, and cinematic irony. In the process of the formation of cinematic tropes, verbal units of both categories are transformed in a variety of ways: structurally, grammatically, semantically, and pragmatically. The investigation has revealed a dual or reverse character that linguistic creativity has in cinematic discourse: verbal units provide the creation of cinematic tropes and at the same time they themselves acquire certain innovative properties. The results could contribute to further studies of creativity in cinematic discourse as well as in other types of multimodal texts, including media, advertising, visual poetry, and electronic literature.

Promoting Self-esteem, Motivation and Creativity Through Collaborative, Pluri-lingual Story Translations

In this article, I discuss how a collaborative and creative approach to Foreign Language Teaching can improve self-esteem, motivation and academic attainment in a multi-cultural school community in East London. The research intervention drew inspiration from the learning context, as well as the Storyline method and experience of collaborative translation. It was designed in response to low self-esteem and motivation among Y7 language learners and the school community following COVID-19 lockdowns, and was planned, delivered and analysed over a period of two-and-a-half months. Research findings indicate that the co-creation of new semi-structured social contexts for language learning, reflection and creativity motivates learners, “community collaborators” and teachers. By providing the necessary resource and feedback, participants collaboratively developed original multi-lingual story translations. This approach not only promoted the linguistic creativity of prior higher-attaining students, but also improved the translation skills of middle and lower attainers. Furthermore, it fostered a collaborative and dialogic culture, enhancing the self-esteem necessary for all learners to progress.