Editor's Preface

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. List of tables vii
4. List of figures ix
5. List of contributors xi
6. Editor's Preface xiii
7. Introduction
8. Lexical creativity, textuality and problems of metalanguage 3
9. Lexical Creativity in Disourse
10. How to do (even more) things with nonce words (other than naming) 15
11. The phonetics of 'un' 39
12. Lexical creativity in texts
13. The press
14. Tracing lexical productivity and creativity in the British media: The Chavs and the Chav-Nots 61
15. Cartoon art
16. Cathy Wilcox meets the phrasal lexicon: Creative deformation of phrasal lexical items for humorous effect 93
17. Advertising and the media
18. Blendalicious 115
19. Electronic communication
20. Keeping up with the times: Lexical creativity in electronic communication 137
21. Fictional genres
22. Lexical creativity as a marker of style in science fiction and children's literature 163
23. Creative concept formation
24. Dynamic creation of analogically-motivated terms and categories in lexical ontologies 189
25. Creative lexical categorization in a narrative fiction 213
26. Sociopolitical effects on creativity
27. Occasional and systematic shifts in word-formation and idiom use in Latvian as a result of translation 239
28. Critical creativity: A study of 'politically correct' terms in style guides for different types of discourse 263
29. Name index 283
30. Subject index 287