Background

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface and acknowledgments xiii
4. Part I. Preliminaries
5. Introduction 3
6. Background 23
7. Approaches 45
8. Part II. Discourse creativity
9. Style mixture and the use of rhetorical sentences 75
10. Borrowing others’ styles and manipulating styles-in-transit 95
11. Genre mixture between conversation and text 119
12. Part III. Rhetorical creativity
13. Puns and intertextuality 143
14. Mitate, futaku, and the macro-metaphor 161
15. Metaphors in multimodal discourse 187
16. Part IV. Grammatical creativity
17. Negatives for non-negative effects 211
18. Demonstratives and the perspectivization of discourse worlds 233
19. First-person references and the perspectivization of multiple selves 257
20. Part V. Reflections
21. Linguistic creativity in Japanese discourse and beyond 283
22. Appendix 293
23. Notes 325
24. References 333
25. Data references 345
26. Author index 349
27. Subject index 353