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Formulaicity and creativity in language and literature
MacKenzie, IanKayman, Martin A.

Formulaicity is pervasive in both spoken and written language. Speakers use a huge amount of prefabricated language including collocations, idioms, fixed and semi-fixed expressions, and verbal creativity often involves combining established word sequences rather than inventing wholly new ones. In literature, formulaicity was long disparaged as the opposite of creativity, and a hallmark of ‘ge…

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126 p.; 22 cm.
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807 FOR f