Chapter 5. The axis of selection: From the familiar to the new

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents IX
3. Chapter 1. Introduction. Intertextuality, dialogism, and memory: The fabric of linguistic creativity 1
4. Part I. The Vocabulary
5. Chapter 2. A coat of many colors: Speech as intertextual collage 19
6. Chapter 3. The principal unit of speech vocabulary: The communicative fragment (CF) 34
7. Chapter 4. Integral meaning 82
8. Part II. From the vocabulary to utterances
9. Chapter 5. The axis of selection: From the familiar to the new 113
10. Chapter 6. The axis of contiguity: Shaping an utterance 149
11. Chapter 7. Categorization 185
12. Chapter 8. Conclusion. The joy of speaking: Creativity as the fundamental condition of language 216
13. Backmatter 233