Linguistic Creativity Research Articles

Discursive-Pragmatic Creativity in English-Language Chinese Mass Media

The issue of linguistic creativity in Chinese mass media sources published in English is considered. The novelty of the study lies in the fact that the English-language discourse of the Chinese mass media is studied as an independent culturally conditioned speech activity phenomenon that actualizes the cultural values of China and the civilizational values of the East. It is substantiated that linguistic creativity is realized in English texts through various forms of manifestation of Chinese national communicative identity: proverbs, allegories, analogies, hints, allusions, rooted in Chinese history, philosophy and folk experience. The updated concepts of proverbs emphasize the values of constant evolutionary movement on the principle of “movement in the still” and the values of collectivism, which are significant both in the country itself and in the region and the world. The collectivism peculiar to China determined the accentuation of the anti-value concepts of hegemony, shame, slander and humiliation. It has been proved that linguistic creativity in the Chinese media in English is also expressed in wordplay and word creation, if this contributes to a more effective presentation of China's position to the English-speaking audience and does not violate the principle of appropriateness. It has been established that in the Chinese English-language mass media, linguistic creativity is of a discursive-pragmatic nature, allows copying samples of linguistic creativity from English-language media and is supplemented with new associations and meanings in their own cultural context.

Artistic Narrative Structure of Ihsan Abdel Quduos and D. H. Lawrence's Novels: A Stylistic Comparative Sketch

This paper explores the artistic structures, aesthetics, and thematics in the literary works of Ihsan Abd Al-Quduos (the Arab writer) and D. H. Lawrence (the English writer) in terms of the narrative style, language, dialogue, settings, and characters through a textual analysis in the light of the premises of the narrative aesthetics, comparative assumptions and aesthetic intertextualities. Comparatively, the paper sheds light on the aspects of artistic aesthetics of structure and style between the two writers, basically the treatment of women, clarifying their narrative experiences. Therefore, this paper adopts the descriptive and analytical critical theory to explore similarities and dissimilarities in the aesthetics, style, and language of both writers' selected texts. The results of this paper textually reveal both authors' awareness of the nature of the fictional discourse as linguistic creativity and special artistic composition. Also, both novelists show some similarities and differences in narrative content, style, structure and themes, each according to his realistic experience as a result of the relationship with the surrounding environment and the cultural background. So, the two writers are very careful with all their art and creativity to endow their novels with aesthetics of expression and their structural and semantic spaces. The paper explores such issues in their selected narratives, which include Ihsan's Sleepless, The Dead End, A Nose and three Eyes, and Don't Turn off the Sun. Lawrence's novels include Sons and Lovers, Women in Love, The Lost Girl, Aaron's Rod, and Lady Chatterley's Lover.

Хроника конференции "Языковая и дискурсивная креативность человека говорящего: современный мир в языках России, Востока и Запада"

On January 18-22, 2022, the First All-Russian Conference with international participation "Linguistic and discursive creativity of Homo loquens: The modern world in the languages of Russia, East and West" was held on the basis of the Oriental Institute - School of Regional and International Studies of the Far Eastern Federal University, Vladivostok, Russia. The material for the research presented at the conference wase the means of expressing linguistic creativity in many languages, including those of different structures: Russian, English, German, Spanish, French, Greek, Korean, Chinese and Japanese. In the presentations of the plenary speakers, important theoretical issues were developed: the methodology for the research field of linguocreativity, the multidimensional nature of the phenomenon and the problems of determining the parameters of linguistic creativity, the classification of its levels, types and kinds. The discussions highlighted the search for effective research techniques and methods for studying non-standard phenomena in modern languages. Within the sections the role of linguistic creativity was discussed in the problematic discourses of the modern world, in foreign language education, Internet communication, and in the representation of personality. The phenomena of linguistic creativity in all the languages studied revealed the acute problems of interaction between language and society, language and culture. During the conference, a constructive exchange of experience in the study of new, non-standard linguistic phenomena in the languages of the world took place. The multidimensional analysis of linguistic creativity in different types of discourse has formed the basis for searching for patterns in the use of linguocreative techniques in different languages of the world. Among the promising tasks - based on the obtained synchronous data - is further comparative and contrastive analysis of languages and discourses.

КРЕАТИВНОСТЬ ЛИЧНОСТИ В ЯЗЫКЕ И КОММУНИКАЦИИ

The article deals with the problem of personality creativity within the framework of the dichotomy “language VS communication”, which is built into the triad “language – creativity – cognition”. This triad is analyzed in two dimensions: from the point of view of the creativity of the language system; from the point of view of the creativity of a linguistic personality. Models and cognitive mechanisms of creativity are presented. Along with analogy and inference, there are three types of the main mechanism of creativity– deviations: pragmatic (distortion of the sign-user relationship); semantic (distortion of the sign-referent relationship); conceptual (distortion of the relationship between the conceptual structures of the original and new values). Pragmatic deviation plays a special role in the process of creative development of new meanings. The question of the boundaries of deviation and what imposes restrictions on the development of new creative meanings is considered. We prove that the limitations on the development of new creative meanings of the word are imposed by the conceptual structure of the original meaning of the word. Based on the latest achievements of Russian and foreign cognitive science, we analyze the structure of the mental lexicon as the main component that plays a leading role in creativity. The connection between creativity and the threat of manipulation is indicated. It is proved that linguistic creativity can lead to the creation of ambiguity (obscurity), which can lead to manipulation. The prospects for further research in the field of creativity are determined, namely, a cross-cultural approach to this phenomenon.

Павло Мовчан про мову

The deal with figurative statements about the language of Pavel Movchan and reveals their correspondence to modern trends in the development of linguistic thought. In the study, we use the descriptive method, as well as the analysis of the semantic components of the text. The source base of the research was the articles, prefaces, interviews included in the collection «Vertical Word» (Kyiv, 2022, 608 p.), the lion’s share of which is included in the section «In the beginning was the Word». Among them, we highlight the following: «Language is a cosmic phenomenon», «Reborn in the word», «The word is dead and alive», «Language and writing: eternal categories». The article proves that the name of the collection of articles is symbolic. It encodes the development path of the Ukrainian national language, which, according to the publicist, can be defined as vertical development, that is, from the bottom to the mountain, from the pole to the elite. At the same time, the author is convinced that the primacy of oral speech and the secondary nature of literary speech in no way limit the functional possibilities of the modern Ukrainian literary language, but only attests to the inextricable connection between these two forms of language existence. On the other hand, the title of the collection of journalistic and literary works of Pavel Movchan uses the idea of ancient philosophers about the four elements (elements) – water, earth, fire and air. The publicist suggests that the fifth ethereal element is language, which enlivens the World, focuses its energy in itself. Language is a kind of synthesis of everything national, the focus of his vision. As a supporter of the hypothesis of polygenesis in the question of the origin of language, Pavlo Movchan, presenting its interpretation, emphasizes the social nature of language, its creation by means of a unique linguistic picture of the world. In the writer’s field of vision are the peculiarities of the communication of native speakers, which he imagines as a kind of power line from one to another. The publicist is also convinced that language affects a person’s anthropological code. Interpretations of the language through the prism of the individual who uses it are also imbued with the depth of the author’s vision and an objective assessment of the linguistic individual creativity. Pavlo Movchan defends the right of every person to use his native language. He sees it as an opportunity to be himself, to be self-determined. The writer’s thoughts about language and the word are marked by metaphorical definitions of their essence, which the artist successfully implements with the help of metaphor.

Occasional coinage as a manifestation of ethnic verbal thinking specificity: With reference to Galician-Ruthenian folk paroemias collected and arranged by Ivan Franko

The paper discusses occasional coinages found among items registered and published by Ivan Franko in his Galician-Ruthenian folk paroemias collection (1901—1910). These highly expressive entities represent the original verbal thinking of the 19th century Galicians and exhibit the great potential of the Ukrainian national language system as well as the specificity of the Galician linguistic world picture. The author elucidates their peculiar semantic and derivational features as compared with those of occasional coinages presented in M. Nomys’ paroemia collec tion, and so determines whether they are all-Ukrainian or specifically Galician. Signifi cantly, Franko supplied each entry in his collection with a commentary, which enables a re searcher to grasp the meaning of a paroemia within the framework of the 19th century Gali cians’ linguistic world picture, the communicative situation within which the item was used, and its underlying stem. The most productive was the occasional derivation of lexemes. Occasional substantives were mostly formed by means of suffixal and confixal derivation as well as composition (sometimes combined with suffixation). Occasional adjectives are few and, as a rule, derived by suffixation, and adverbial coinages are still more infrequent. The author demonstrates the richness of the modes of derivation, mostly occasional, that were employed in acts of linguistic creativity, as well as tracing and analysing instances of semantic occasional formations. Keywords: occasional coinage, means of derivation, paroemias, the Ukrainian language of the 19th century, the linguistic world picture of the 19th century Ukrainians

Essence and interpretation of secondary nomination means

Since the main focus in the traditional interpretation was on the derivational description, nominative activity was limited to research on the scale of cognitive-discursive, discursive-synergistic mechanisms. Such an interpretation of nominative activity led to the fact that word formation and the phenomena of nomination turned into areas that repeat each other. Whereas, secondary nomination is an absolute unique phenomenon by the fact that the linguistic criteria set by the language community are sometimes hampered by the linguistic creativity of a person by means of subjective initiative to his genesis as a set of means of realizing innovative ideas that arise due to changes and developments in society. The article provides a detailed analysis of the above-mentioned nominative activity, secondary nomination, derivative characteristics of the means of secondary nomination.

The symbol of the “house” as a driver of linguistic creativity in V. Shakhrin's song “from the war”

The symbol of the “house” as a driver of linguistic creativity in V. Shakhrin's song “from the war”

Мовна гра в інтернетних постфольклорних текстах періоду російсько-української війни

The article examines language game techniques in the post-folklore of Internet environment at the grammatical, phonetic, word-forming, and lexical levels, determines the specifics of their creation, and reveals their functional features. The source base became post-folkloric texts, created and distributed with the help of various forms of electronic communication since the beginning of the full-scale aggression of the russian federation against Ukraine. It is proved that the study of mechanisms of the language game in Internet post-folklore allowed to reveal the value attitudes and ideals of Ukrainians, broadcasted through modern communicative practices. It is noted that among language game techniques at this level, Internet users prefer polycodification and transliteration. This is explained by objectification of the «enemy» concept, deepening of binary opposition «own – foreign». The mechanical transmission of the text and individual words of the russian language into Ukrainian letters is used with identifying, expressive, meaningful and expressive functions. At the phonetic level, authors of postfolklore resort to paronomasia, which mainly creates a comic effect of message. The word-forming level is represented by occasionalisms designed to emphasize the negative image of russian military. The most productive level is lexical level, the methods of which are based on semantic associations. Linguistic creativity of the authors is manifested by the inclusion of a sign in a new associative context through the use of semantic flickering, the simultaneous actualization of the literal and figurative meanings of a word, the transition from literal to figurative in one verbal component, playing with homonyms, etc. The mechanisms of the language game reflect the peculiarities of worldview of the participants of Internet communication, their attitude to realities of war were analyzed.

Sacred precedent in the Ukrainian linguistic culture of the war period

The article is devoted to the verbalization of sacred category in Ukrainian linguistic culture during the Russian — Ukrainian war 2022. The durability of tradition in the presentation of religious meanings and their modernization in modern conditions are shown as a kind of linguistic creativity of Ukrainians in regard to the continuation of the national tradition in the modeling of semantic-pragmatic meanings in the plane sacred-profanne. Attention is drawn to the fact that verbalization of sacred and anti-sacred, as everything in the language system and speech, semonstrates progress, dynamics, development. The article examines the linguistic manifestations of the processes of sacralization, desacralization, and resacralization as components of the category of sacred. The role of the language game that manifested at different linguistic levels (graphical, word-forming, phraseological) in the desacralization of certain religious concepts is demonstrated. The cultural and worldview conditioning of the sacred is shown, which is realized in the partial desacralization of religious concepts and sacralization of national precedent ones, primarily the Armed Forces. The attention is focused on the appearance of new specific precedent texts, in which the partial desacralization of important religious concepts is a kind of background for the expression of the sacralization of the Armed Forces and Ukraine, which demonstrates both the durability of tradition and innovation in Ukrainian linguistic culture. Keywords: sacralization, desacralization, resacralization, precedent, language game

Bilinguals’ Creativity in Nepali English: Sheeba Shah’s Novel The Other Queen

This paper attempted to address the issues related to bilinguals’ creativity in Nepali English and their implications for World Englishes in the Nepali context. I purposively selected Sheeba Shah’s (2018) novel The Other Queen, went through the contents, and examined the language used in the novel to investigate the linguistic and literary creativity. In this paper, I employed a theoretical framework derived from Kachru (1985) to describe how English is nativised in the Nepali context to convey the Nepali socio-cultural, political as well as historical information, and explore how Nepali literature written in English exhibits typical bilingual creativity of the Nepali writer. I found that the bilingual writer adopted different linguistic and literary strategies such as direct lexical transfer, code-switching, hybridisation, metaphors and proverbs, loan translation, and nativised discourse strategies to convey a distinct sense of Nepaliness. Evidences justify that the bilinguals’ creativity contributes to develop new canons in Nepali English literature.

From Africa to Jamaica and back: the Atlantic as a dynamic linguistic contact zone

This paper is concerned with Africa and the African Diaspora in Jamaica from a linguistic perspective. It will shed light on linguistic and communicative practices which illustrate the dynamic and reciprocal relationship between Africa and the Caribbean. My objective is to go beyond the approach of traditional (Caribbean) creolistics, which usually investigates African “substrate” influences in so-called creole languages, and to look at the Atlantic contact area as a dynamic zone with mutual and multidirectional influences. This will involve not only the historical dimension of the Transatlantic Slave Trade, through which the African Diaspora in Jamaica, the Caribbean, and the Americas emerged in the first place, but also a focus on the role of the dynamicity of current language practices on identity, language ideologies, linguistic creativity, and agency. An important aspect in this respect is the emblematicity of African elements, as linguistic elements, which are different from ‘Standard English’ (often perceived as the colonial language and the language of the slave master and oppressor), and which are marked in the context of conscious linguistic choices. Moreover, there is an awareness of the African heritage in Jamaican language practices that informs conscious efforts to use African linguistic elements (for instance, names). For many Jamaicans, their African heritage and identity play an important role. This can be observed, in particular, in Rastafari discourses and in Reggae music and culture, which emphasize a strong focus on Africa. These phenomena are also relevant in (Anglophone) Africa, where Jamaican linguistic practices are adopted through the influence of Reggae, Dancehall, and Rastafari. Therefore, this contribution will also feature some examples of how influences from the Diaspora come back to Africa, for example, in music and youth language practices.

Linguistic creativity and discourse profiles of English language children’s novels

Contemporary discourse studies face the necessity to develop the methods of contrastive sub-discourse analysis which apply numeric and comparable data to diversify and describe sub-discourse types. The aim of the research is to propose a method of discourse profiling serving the purpose, and to further test the method in the contrastive study of linguistic creativity in different types of English language childrens novels. The category of linguistic creativity being the leading form of language poesis receives parametric description on all language representation levels (in written form) and provides the discourse values for contrastive analysis. These values are explored in the fragments of non-autobiographic and autobiographic adventure novel sub-discourse types authored by J.C. George, F. Gibson, J.D. Ullman, and G. Durrell (a total amount of 120.000 signs) annotated manually for 52 linguistic creativity parameters on phonological, morphological, word-formation, lexical, syntactic, and graphic levels. The working hypothesis is that the linguistic creativity parametric activity distributions represent the sub-discourse profiles and may serve to contrast sub-discourse types by means of their vectors contingency values. The analysis in individual parameter activity and in parameter groups activity demonstrated significant variance in sub-discourse construal, with autobiographic sub-discourse of G. Durrell manifesting several higher activity values in word-formation (occasional compounding), lexical use (the use of professional language, lexical tropes, allusive names, higher register style) and syntactic use (the use of parallel structures and syntactic intensifiers). In terms of morphological activity, the parameter values tend to be lower (morphological category shifts), the same stands true of some syntactic (the use of elliptical structures) and lexical parameters (the use of lower register types and proper names). The sub-discourse profiles demonstrate several common features, evidently typical of the discourse type itself, and the features differentiating non-autobiographic and autobiographic discourse subtypes. Vector correlation analysis revealed lower correlation values for autobiographic sub-discourse, which proves its specificity and testifies to the discourse profiling method applicability.

Speak Global, Sell Local? Digital Linguistic Landscape of Local Small Businesses in the Social Media

AbstractThis paper focuses on the online presence of languages and linguistic patterns of local small businesses in a bilingual, Hungarian-Romanian ethnic community in Romania. By capturing linguistic diversity and creativity via netnographic research, patterns of linguistic landscape elements in the social media, such as marketing strategy of local small businesses, can be analysed. The findings suggest that despite the need to advertise by using the state language, Romanian, in order to maximize the target audience, the concentration of Hungarian landscape elements is the highest. Businesses construct their linguistic identity by their language choices and practices, aligned with the collective linguistic identity of a bilingual community and the need for a global representation, in order to secure a place in the local market.

Linguistic Creativity of the Indonesian for Foreign Speakers (BIPA) Students at the Morphological, Syntactic, and Semantic Levels

The research aimed to describe the forms of linguistic creativity of BIPA students at the morphological, syntactic, and semantic levels. The research method used was descriptive qualitative with content analysis techniques. The research data were 78 sentences written by BIPA students at Bina Nusantara University academic year 2020/2021. The results show that BIPA students’ sentences have linguistic creativity in the form of the morphological, syntactic, and semantic levels sentences. At the morphological level, the process of linguistic creativity in words is carried out by (1) inserting foreign terms into sentences, (2) using non-standard words, and (3) abbreviating words. While in phrases, linguistic creativity is done by (1) reversing the structure of the phrase, (2) forming nominal phrases with less common word pairs, and (3) forming nominal phrases by incorporating elements of student culture. At the syntactic level, linguistic creativity is carried out in the form of compiling compound sentences with the expansion of descriptions, expansion of objects, expansion of subjects, and expansion of predicates. At the semantic level, linguistic creativity is manifested in the form of the figure of speech: personification, simile, hyperbole, repetition, and metaphor.

Semantics and Pragmatics of Palindromes in Language and Internet Communication

The semantic and pragmatic features of palindromes are considered as an important component of the Russian linguistic picture of the world. The question of establishing the scope and boundaries of the concept of “palindrome” is raised, the specificity of the analysis and interpretation of palindromes in modern linguistic science is characterized, the author’s schemes and classifications of palindromes are proposed based on their structure and semantics. Particular attention is paid to palindromes as an example of linguistic creativity, present both in a literary text and in virtual communication. A review of linguistic research on polyndromia is made. The novelty of the research is seen in the fact that for the first time a comprehensive linguistic analysis of palindromes is carried out as an element of Internet communication, highlighting the most valuable topics and ideas that underlie the modeling of palindromes. It is proved that when palindromes are implemented in the current Internet space, their specificity changes: in contexts, there is a shift in emphasis from aesthetics (form) to pragmatics (content) of palindromes, which fully corresponds to the idea of an anthropocentric paradigm and a semantic-cognitive approach in the study of language.

Речетворчество и лингвокреативность в дискурсе англоязычных китайских СМИ

The aim of the study is to identify the causes and patterns of discursive creativity in the Chinese media in English, and to solve the issue of linguistic creativity in an intermediary language that is socially significant for intercultural communication. The scientific originality lies in the appeal to the culturological and pragmatic factors that caused the phenomenon of discursive creativity in the Chinese media in English. As a result, various forms of using the available material of the modern English language have been identified: reproductive, productive, innovative and creative ones. Various types of linguistic creativity (allegories, allusions, proverbs, sayings, parables and other types of allegories), which have a national and cultural specificity, due to the topic of messages and the Chinese speech-thinking tradition, have been established.

Meanings and scripts in the linguistic landscape of Saint Petersburg

AbstractThis article examines the linguistic component of building signs in the city center of St. Petersburg, Russia. The research is based on the analysis of an extensive database that covers 849 examples. It concludes that the Cyrillic script can be found in 84% of cases, Latin script – in 48%, and other scripts – in 4%. English is used to attract international visitors, demonstrate the authenticity of the brand, create a national flavor, hide meaning from the general public or as a part of linguistic creativity. Sometimes such language experiments break the phonetic–graphemic definitiveness of language, mixing form, and meaning. The use of the Latin script can either be targeted at those who do not know the Russian language or form a part of the language game for the Russian-speaking public.

What is linguistic creativity in schizophrenia?

Background: In an experiment in which clinicians were asked to identify formal thought disorder (FTD) in schizophrenia based on writing samples, the mania and creative writing samples received more FTD diagnoses than the FTD samples. We conducted a systematic review to see whether figuration, associated with both schizophrenia and creative uses of language, could contextualize these findings. Methods: This was a systematic review only (PROSPERO ID:116255). We searched AMED, Child Development and Adolescent Studies, CINAHL, MEDLINE, PsycARTICLES, and PsycINFO. Results. Many studies used figuration tasks to test creativity and vice versa, and key factors affecting figurative language output and processing were positive and negative symptom ratios, IQ, and schizophrenia subtype. Discussion/conclusion: Our review suggests that the clinicians in the experiment mentioned above perceived FTD as characterized by linguistic markers of verbal and figural creativity that are impacted by FTD itself. FTD is more likely characterized by expressional disfluencies in specific contexts.

РУССКОКУЛЬТУРНЫЙ СУБСТРАТ В АНГЛОЯЗЫЧНЫХ ТЕКСТАХ М.Д. ШРАЕРА

Statement of the problem. At present when expansion of linguistic and cultural contacts between countries and peoples is growing, the problem of studying the phenomenon of transculturalism acquires particular relevance. Cultural interaction, fusion of cultural traditions and overcoming cultural isolation is reflected on the stage of linguistic interaction and translational creativity of emigrant writers who, being cut off from the linguistic processes of the metropolis in a new linguistic environment, use the language of the host country, combining elements of two linguistic systems and cultures. The purpose of this article is to study and single out the features of the Russian cultural substrate in the works by the modern emigrant writer M.D. Schrayer. Review of scientific literature on the problem. Along with a large number of works devoted to the language of translingual writers, works on the analysis of the Russian-language substrate in the texts by modern authors who create their texts in English are quite few and do not completely solve the problem of the functional significance of this phenomenon. The methodology (materials and methods). The article is based on the analysis and generalization of articles devoted to the problem of cultural substrate and 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. Based on the analysis of the texts by M. Schrayer functioning of the Russian-language substrate in the English texts was analysed. The methods of semantization of Russian cultural elements and their use in order to fulfill certain aesthetic functions were studied. It was revealed that the Russian cultural substrate is organically included in the description of Russian reality, creates the image of Russia, expands the idea of ​​the people inhabiting this country and their culture. Conclusion. The English-language literary texts by M. Schrayer are a vivid example of intercultural communication. The use of the Russian cultural substrate in English-language texts serves as a kind of information transfer channel at the intercultural level. Russian cultural elements demonstrate how an emigrant writer includes his experience in a literary work, they convey the author’s attitude, reveal the connection of his biography to an eventful series of his works, which ultimately forms and interprets the image of Russia in a foreign language communicative sphere.