Linguistic Creativity Research Articles

Tomorrow May Not Be Yours: Military Slang and Jargon as Linguistic Performance in Nigeria

This article explores the expressive use of slang and jargon by officers and men of the Nigerian Army in a bid to construct social identity, enforce discipline, and conform to work ethics. The study adopts linguistic ideology and community of practice theories which are complemented by the notion of style as performance to provide frameworks for understanding military subjectivities and attitudes represented by these emblematic linguistic resources. Data were sourced through participant observation and semi-structured interviews with 30 participants. The study found that military slang and jargon help ease communication between officers and men as they index power, enhance solidarity, facilitate inclusion (and exclusion), and promote varied military subcultures. We conclude that situated language practices provide a site for linguistic creativity and the enactment of style that sustain meaningful relationships between personnel in the army. This linguistic practice, therefore, offers strong social capital in defining collective identities and professional belonging.

The use of creative technologies in teaching a foreign language to students of pedagogical universities

This paper is devoted to the problem of using creative technologies for teaching a foreign language to prospective teachers, which is relevant in accordance with the standards of higher professional education. The role of creative thinking in the development of foreign language communicative competence is indicated. The question of the development of linguistic creativity in teaching a foreign language is touched upon. The definitions of pedagogical technologies, creative pedagogical technologies and creative technologies of teaching a foreign language are considered. The main characteristics are highlighted and the classification of creative technologies of teaching a foreign language is presented. Technologies for the development of linguistic creativity of students are presented. Attention is focused on the technologies of creative writing as a means of developing linguistic creativity. Examples of the use of language and group creative games as methods of creative writing for teaching a foreign language (German) to students are given. The technologies of heuristic teaching of a foreign language are also presented, on the basis of which students creative thinking points are considered: heuristic methods of cognition of an object, identification of its main features and heuristic methods of transformation of object features and creation of a new object. Each group of heuristic methods is illustrated by examples of use in German language classes at a university.

L’Observatoire Européen du Plurilinguisme (OEP) Peut-on promouvoir la diversité linguistique de l’Europe à travers des Traducteurs Bénévoles?

The European Observatory for Plurilingualism Can we promote linguistic diversity in Europe through Volunteer Translators?
 The question of plurilingualism is of very great topicality and richness. It may concern the issue of linguistic representativeness and go from language ideology to the different educational and linguistic practices, passing through the valorisation of lifelong learning in the fields of foreign language acquisition. Plurilingualism can also be a field of academic research, particularly in linguistics, language didactics and translation studies. It is also important to emphasize that the notoriety of the concept of plurilingualism is especially dependent on the actions of states. Indeed, the question of linguistic diversity - to be understood as the management of relations between languages - is fundamentally political in nature and for this very reason, it is at the heart of all state power strategies. As far as possible, with our study, we would like to contribute to the ongoing debate by drawing attention to the fact that to be better understood, the issue of plurilingualism requires the contribution of various actors. For this reason, our study proposes to address the case of the European Observatory of Plurilingualism. Our choice is based on the fact that this actor of the European scene allows to weld together the specificities of supranational institutions and those of social actors. Specifically, the promotion of plurilingualism is a crucial topic for European Observatory for Plurilingualism (EPO): a cooperation structure bringing together decision-makers, researchers and representatives of civil society committed to preserving the linguistic diversity and creativity of the European area. For the past eighteen years, the OEP has been promoting languages of the European Union by developing its activities along four lines: monitoring information, raising awareness among various audiences, pooling resources, and mediating in the decision-making processes of transnational political institutions. To do this, this actor of plurilingualism, on the one hand, uses textual typologies (the bimonthly newsletter, editorials and press releases) aimed at strategic communication and linguistic vigilance; on the other hand, it uses translation practices that are fundamentally multilingual. The latter are carried out by volunteer translators - figures halfway between professionalism and amateurism - who use a variety of translation approaches. Our article proposes to analyse the figure of the volunteer translator by examining his or her translations. The aim will be to show what communicative and editorial strategies are used; what influence the context has on the translational choices (in particular, the concept of "partial translation" will be discussed) and, finally, what status the translation has - especially in relation to civilisational and educational issues. To do this, we will use a mini corpus of texts whose enunciative, stylistic and discursive dimensions will be observed. In this direction, the study we propose to carry out will allow us to observe that for OEP translation is one of the pillars of its strategy in favour of plurilingualism and this by adopting a double approach. On the one hand, OEP volunteer translators translate press releases, editorials, and the newsletter (and/or website) into at least five languages. On the other hand, OEP sets itself the task of ensuring that translation is truly at the heart of the linguistic practices of the European institutions, and more specifically of the European Commission. In this sense, translation will be considered a necessary part of the discourse on multilingualism in the European institutions. In conclusion, we will argue that the practice of translation needs to be recast on new bases and new strategies (specific editorial and translational), in order to respond to the needs, especially of civic education, of a world that has become multipolar. In our opinion, the perspective put forward by the OEP and its volunteer translators goes precisely in the direction of a translating practice that is the reflex of the evolution of society and its new challenges. So, our approach to the OEP fundamentally multilingual writing practices will show how a paradigm shift is possible.

Language, Social Media and Ideologies: Translingual Englishes, Facebook and Authenticities

Language, Social Media and Ideologies: Translingual Englishes, Facebook and Authenticities

Comparative Discourse Analysis of Meme Tv Headlines

Linguistic creativity is realised in our everyday text and it allows formulation and expression of ideas. Online content creators (humourists) have created meme tags or headlines posited to done by Nation TV comparing them to other unspecified TV stations. These humourists utilise language. This paper does a comparative analysis of the meme TV headlines to comprehend how language has been utilised in this scenario by determining the structural differences in the process of formation, determining whether the grammar constructed would say practical and sensible things about the written text, identifying figures of speech, and determine the source of amusement in the meme. This paper was guided by functional grammar (Halliday, 1985), a theory that is oriented toward describing how language makes contextual meanings. It analyses the grammatical structure, the communicative situation, participants, and context of the discourse. This paper has identified that the online humourists or content creators have conveyed meaning artistically with creativity by use of figures of correlation such as metonymy, symbolism, figure of comparison, truncation, wordplay and paronyms. The data that was utilised in this paper was collected from Kenyan Facebook fun pages.

Lexical means of expressing emotivity and evaluation in theprose by Gennady Yushkov

Introduction. The paper deals the description of some lexical means of expressing emotivity and evaluation in the prose by Gennady Yushkov (1932–2009). Materials and Methods. The article is based on the texts of the novels and short stories by G. A. Yushkov. The author employs the method of component analysis, it defines such components of connotative meaning as parametric, emotional-evaluative, and figurative. It applies a structural method when describing models of individual phraseological units of the author. Results and Discussion. Emotivity and evaluation in the prose by Gennady Yushkov is expressed by various lexical means. Disapproval of the subject of speech is conveyed by commonly used pejoratives and individual phraseological units of the author, created according to the models of ordinary phrases in a figurative sense, lexical repetitions in the replicas of the characters. Negative evaluation and negative emotions of the speaker are also expressed by figurative verbs, while the intensity component in the connotative meaning of the word becomes a prerequisite for the development of the evaluation component. Conceptually significant for the works by G. A. Yushkov is the component of approval in the connotative meaning of the Komi ethnonym. Such qualities of a Komi person as bringing things to the end, sincerity, purposefulness, perseverance, the ability to feel nature and navigate in the forest, as well as modesty. Conclusion. The lexical means of expressing emotiveness and evaluation in the prose by Gennady Yushkov are quite diverse They are based on both the commonly used resources of the Komi folk language and the author’s own linguistic creativity.

Hope in the Age of Dystopia: The Ghost in the Machine in Øyvind Rimbereid's Solaris korrigert

Hope in the Age of Dystopia: The Ghost in the Machine in Øyvind Rimbereid's <i>Solaris korrigert</i>

The type and function of metaphors in Jordanian economic discourse: A critical metaphor analysis approach

While conceptual metaphors yield various linguistic expressions that reflect conceptual mappings between the source and target domains, there is another type of metaphor which is also constructed cognitively except that these metaphors are “single”, in the sense that they are not reflected by several metaphorical expressions. These metaphors do not constitute a conceptual scheme in which many metaphorical expressions enforce the association between the source and target domains. On the basis of Critical Metaphor Analysis Approach, this paper systematically analyses the types and function of metaphor used in a specialised corpus containing 9.5 million words collected from two Jordanian newspapers to describe economic concepts in the Jordanian context. It also explores the interaction between conceptual and single metaphors, on the one hand, and conventional and novel metaphorical expressions, on the other. The results reveal that conceptual metaphors and conventionalised metaphorical expressions in Jordanian economic discourse perform a function that can be distinguished from that of single metaphors and novel metaphorical expressions. I argue that the use of the latter seems to be a matter of ‘luxury’ rather than ‘necessity’ where luxury refers to linguistic creativity.

Reflections on Some Instances of Translanguaging in Written Bulgarian Discourse

The use of translanguaging strategies in written Bulgarian discourse is continually expanding and this expansion ultimately affects the Bulgarian language system in one way or another. The present paper focuses on 42 instances of translanguaging taken from Bulgarian-language lifestyle magazines and online advertisements. On the one hand, the aim is to illustrate the interrelatedness between translanguaging and linguistic creativity and, on the other hand, to identify what economy effects could be achieved by applying translanguaging strategies in written Bulgarian discourse. The collected samples have been classified and described in such a way as to see how the phenomenon of translanguaging has currently affected the Bulgarian language system.

HYBRID ENGLISH-SERBIAN AND SERBIAN-ENGLISH LEXICAL BLENDS IN SERBIAN

The present paper analyzes 111 contact-induced hybrid lexical blends in contemporary Serbian, i.e. new words which combine two other words belonging to different languages, namely English and Serbian. It aims at determining: (a) the preferences (if any) for the arrangement of the blends’ source words as to whether they are native or non-native, (b) (the frequencies of) the blending mechanisms, (c) the semantics of the blends, including their semantic transparency, as well as (d) some social aspects of the blends’ use. Additionally, the results obtained herein are compared with those for the contact-induced hybrid Spanish-English blends (BALTEIRO 2017) to determine whether the tendencies observed for the Serbian data are also characteristic of the Spanish data. The results show that: (a) non-native or English words tend to be arranged first, as well as fully preserved, as opposed to native words which are normally clipped if appear in first position, (b) discontinuous overlapping blends and blends of two full source words which necessarily overlap constitute the majority of the data, (c) most of the hybrid blends are of the attributive endocentric type, being fairly semantically transparent, and that (d) the Serbian hybrid blends are generally used in those social contexts such as advertising, business and product naming, or entertainment where linguistic creativity is not only highly desirable, but may have an important social function in creatively expressing identities. Finally, the comparative analysis indicates that there are fairly similar formal and semantic tendencies in the creation of the Serbian and Spanish hybrid blends.

Adoleszenz – Name – Internet: wie nennen sich deutschsprachige Mädchen im Netz?

The authors conducted the present study across onomastics and social-, gender-, Internet,- and psycho-linguistics. The paper analyzes virtual anthroponyms (so-called nicknames or usernames) that are result from self-nominations by Germanspeaking adolescent girls on the social Internet services Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Flickr, Pinterest, and TikTok. The study material covers four years (2017–2020) and examines 2,363 nicknames, as well as the accompanying personal metadata of 11–17-year-old users along with the results of online and offline interviews with informants. The paper seeks the main goal and hypothesis of t finding a correlation between the gender-age characteristics of adolescent Internet users and their linguistic embodiment in virtual communication in the form of self-nominations. The authors study and describe nicknames based on the positions of their semantic motivation and meaning, nominative potential, structural and grammatical design, and graphic organization. The linguocultural component of virtual self-nominations receives special emphasis. In addition, the authors provide the results of an experiment to determine the stability of nicknames over time. A descriptive linguistic analysis of the data reveals clear trends in the creation of self-nominations by adolescent girls. The authors discovered different specific gender and age markers through the lens of virtual anthroponyms: formation of self-concept against the background of striving for an emphasized individualization and simultaneous need for social acceptance, distinctly feminine manifestations, a tendency to positive or overestimated self-esteem, and increased interest in the pubertal phase. The users are equally inclined to deanonymize and to anonymize their personalities in the web space. However, in both cases, it is particularly important for girls to transfer their original self-nominative intentions to nicknames. The development of cognitive abilities and critical thinking by adolescent girls is manifested in linguistic creativity and involvement in the problematic or cultural context of interest.&nbsp;&nbsp;

GEN Z’s ATTRIBUTES, CHARACTERISTICS, AND LINGUISTIC CREATIVITY IN DIFFERENT SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS

The study tried to determine the relationship between Gen Z?s characteristics and their linguistic creativity. It shows how creative Gen Z is in terms of word formation on different social media platforms. The study used a mixed-method research design, specifically explanatory sequential mixed method design. The study respondents were the 30 selected Senior High School students of Sta. Maria Integrated High School. They are members of Generation Z who were born in the years 1997 to 2015. The qualitative data for phase 1 were gathered through them. In phase 2, the non-Probability sampling was used to gather data from interviews, and the type of non-probability sampling for convenience sampling. The attributes of Gen-Zs in terms of interests, strength, financially-minded, in terms of being digital natives, visual learners, and in terms of their linguistic creativity attained the mean scores of 3.39, 3.82, 3.77, 4.23, 4.18, 2.92, and 3.57 with the SDs of 1.22, 0.99, 1.04, 0.79, 0.90, 1.33, and 0.99 respectively. The null hypothesis stating that there is no significant relationship between Gen ? Z?s characteristics to the level of Gen ? Z?s linguistic creativity in different social media platforms was rejected, which means there is a significant relationship between the Gen Zs characteristics and Gen Zs linguistic creativity and this call for an alternative hypothesis. This study recommends that there should be learning support for students learning through social media and online platforms to have their ethical standards in using social media. The teacher may teach the new generations about lexicology and word formation to make them aware of their language behavior. Also, teachers may use different platforms to cater to the needs of students in language learning, and they may not use or settle in using social media although social media is engaging for them. Lastly, future researchers may venture into more interviews and use a deeper approach in studying this kind of topic to have better and more accurate results.

The Productivity of Lexemes of English Origin

The dynamism of a language is sustained by the flexible and receptive character at the lexico-semantic level. An important contribution to the development and enrichment of the current vocabulary is made not only by the lexemes of English origin (Anglicisms), but also by the derivatives produced from them. Integrated in the Romanian linguistic system, the newly created elements become authentic structural and functional units. In the present study, the author selected and analyzed a series of English words with extended circulation in the specialized languages and their lexical family, which they constitute/ complete in the meantime with units formed on Romanian territory. Most of the examined terms are recorded in the recent lexicographical works, but there are also words that circulate only in the mass media, in various fields of public activity and in the colloquial style, demonstrating the linguistic creativity and inventiveness of the users.

New Formats of Interaction Between the Author and the Reader as a Parameter of Linguistic Creativity in &lt;i&gt;Spider-Man&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;The Incredible Hulk&lt;/i&gt;, and &lt;i&gt;Daredevil&lt;/i&gt; Comic Books

According to linguistic creativity studies, the text is a product of creative activity of the author, who uses linguistic innovations and creative means mainly at the lexical level. However, linguistic creativity can manifest itself at any linguistic level. The present research featured the manifestation of linguistic creativity at the level of communication and discourse. The paper describes the formats of interaction between the author and the reader in the text of a comic book, which acts as a parameter of linguistic creativity on the communicative and discursive level. American comic books about Spider-Man, Hulk, and Daredevil (1960s–1980s) contain the traditional narrator – reader / listener interaction when the author comments on the real events and gives detailed information about the devices and appliances used by the characters. New creative formats include we (creators) – you (reader) and we (creators and readers). In the we (creators) – you (reader) format, authors share their opinions on the current comic book, publish teasers about the next issue, congratulate themselves and the personages on the work done, and openly communicate with readers through letters to the editorial office. The we (creators and readers) format presupposes a joint participation of authors and readers in the story. These formats emerge under the influence of temporal, cultural, social, economic, and political factors and are mediated by the discursive practices of rotation, dissemination, approximation, convergence, etc.

Am I trolling?: A CA-informed approach to Gangjing in a Chinese online forum

Because digital affordances of the Internet have provided spaces for linguistic creativity, a large number of popular terms derive from the Internet. Analyses of these forms serve as a lens through which essential aspects of social realities can be analyzed. This study focuses on the use of a trolling label Gangjing popularized in Chinese digital interaction. Collecting data from interactional threads in Baidu Post Bar, the CA-informed study investigates what communicative actions netizens perform in using the term and what responsive behaviors it triggers. Pragmatic notions such as identity construction and relational acts are adopted to interpret its use. Results show that Gangjing is used to show disagreements, delegitimize others as irrational participants, express negative emotional stances, and invite people for entertainment. Different responsive behaviors, including resisting, criticizing, mocking, attacking, and playing, are triggered. Overall, the creative trolling label can function as an interactional resource accomplishing interpersonal functions. By nuanced analyses of the dynamics of a popular reference term rooted in Chinese language and culture, the study adds to the current interactional approach to creative language use in online communication while providing new insight on interpretations of online trolling discourse.

A View on Grammar Teaching and Practice for Communicative Activities in Romanian as Foreign Language Acquisition in Online Classroom

Throughout the years, the literature showed that the L2 teachers have struggled to establish whether it is not better for students to acquire the grammar rules intuitively, through communicative activities, rather than to learn them with the help of traditional exercises. Our research focuses on the importance of teaching Romanian language as a foreign language to achieve proper communicative skills. The questionnaire methodology applied led to a brief analysis on teachers’ adaptability to the most effective, interesting and interactive methods of teaching grammar, which gave us suggestions on how the practice of grammar for communicative activities can motivate and involve students to interact and to participate in online classroom activities in a friendly virtual learning environment. Our target group involved the Romanian language teachers whose role is to become the key factor in delivering the grammar rules instruction, in choosing the methods and interactive communicative activities, which will allow students to manifest interest and to perform each task accordingly. The study shows that communicative activities give students the possibility to practice their knowledge, to use creativity and to improve their general knowledge and communicative skills better than using traditional methods. In conclusion, such a learning experience becomes challenging in the virtual environment. Moving to the online classes and changing the interaction paradigm, as well as the necessity to adapt the teaching methods/activities, recommends the teachers to engage themselves to ensure that the learning environment is made efficient and that teaching still offers the students the means for limitless linguistic creativity.

Linguistic creativity in the implementation of the patriotic rhetoric in Chinese media discourse

The subject of the study is the tools of linguistic and discursive creativity that implement the patriotic rhetoric in Chinese official state media. The purpose of the study is to identify the key creative linguistic tools and features of their use in the implementation of the patriotic rhetoric in Chinese media discourse. To achieve this goal, the following research methods are used: classification, lexical and syntactic analysis, cognitive-semantic method, descriptive method. The article describes the associative features of the concept PATRIOTISM in the Chinese linguistic worldview. Particular attention is paid to creative linguistic mechanisms in expressing and accentuating patriotic meanings. In the process of linguistic analysis, an explication of the combined use of folk wisdom, proverbs, sayings of thinkers of ancient China and historical allusions is carried out. As a result, it has been proved that a multifaceted creative language strategy is used for implementing the rhetoric of patriotism. The main conclusions of the study are that parallel constructions enhance the semantic and emotional information in the implementation of the patriotic rhetoric in Chinese media discourse; the military metaphor is often used when external threats appear; in reflecting the ideas of solidarity and the image of the great overcoming, the existing two-character words are creatively reorganized to form new four-character words to express nuances of word meaning and emotion. The scientific novelty lies in a comprehensive analysis of the ways of creative linguistic use for the implementation of the patriotic rhetoric in the authentic linguistic material of Chinese media discourse. The results can be used in the process of intercultural communication and the development of special courses about Chinese media, and can also promote communication and cooperation between politicians, journalists and linguists.

Pun-based jokes and linguistic creativity: designing 3R-module

The development of creativity becomes a significant issue in the era of automation and information technologies. Linguistic creativity can increase the inventiveness and resourcefulness of the representatives of philological professions. We consider humour as a tool that helps to develop personal creativity. Verbal play as a form of humour is considered as one of the ways to improve linguistic creativity. The 3L-course of linguistic creativity is aimed at developing lingual, localisation &amp; translation, and literary creativity. The 3L-course includes 3R-module designed to improve the ability to recognise, reproduce in another language, and recreate pun-based linguistic inventions and innovations. The 3R-module tasks are based: on the similarity of activity, the similarity of the modality of the stimulus material, the number of languages, and the types of language units. The 3R-module involves the 3T-stage model (transparency, training, and testing).The 3S-test based on sense-finding, solution-finding, and scope-finding tasks revealed that the combination of 3R-module with the 3T-stage model in the scope of the 3L-course would help improve the quantity and quality of ideas and avoid stalemates when creating linguistic inventions. The 3L-course can be useful for philological students, writers, translators, journalists, copywriters, native and foreign language teachers because it helps improve personal creativity and productivity.

Мультимодальные аспекты лингвокреативности в политическом плакате (на материале немецкого языка)

The paper considers the types and compositional and conceptual functions of combinations of verbal and non-verbal elements in modern German political posters. The aim of the research is to identify the persuasive potential of multimodal interaction between verbal and non-verbal elements as manifestation of the addressee’s linguistic creativity. The scientific originality of the research is determined by the fact that it considers non-verbal elements of text structure together with verbal elements as multimodal implementation of syncretic linguistic creativity. As a result, it has been discovered that non-verbal elements either become an integral part of the meaning of linguo-creative elements of a political poster, or serve as pragmatic background for their better perception by the recipient.

Лингвокреативность в дискурсе электронных СМИ: средства и методы

The article is devoted to the analysis of the means of linguistic creativity verbalization in the discourse of electronic mass media. Aiming at the detection and analysis of these means, realized by employing devices of various language levels, the authors emphasize the necessity of using a complex of research methods, such as content analysis, descriptive, semiotic and classification method to identify, analyze, classify the detected lexical, graphic, grammar and stylistic techniques to highlight the most widely used means of actualizing linguistic creativity in mass media discourse. The overview of the approaches to the analysis of electronic mass media is included. The authors also point out at multi-disciplinary character and complexity of the category of linguistic creativity, which involves activity, cognitive and communicative aspects. The research material is comprised of texts of mailing lists devoted to the topic of pandemic. In the result of conducted research the authors come to conclusion that means of actualization of linguistic creativity include verbal and non-verbal mechanisms which create psycho-emotional effect, exactly, lexical, grammar, stylistic and graphic means; lexical units of certain subject areas – medicine, telecommunications – used in the transformed meaning, which is achieved by employing a number of stylistic expressive means; visual elements which help to identify implicit meanings present in the texts; lexical deviations functioning as occasionalisms as an additional factor of attracting attention to the information in the texts.