Elements of language creativity
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Simone Casini
Abstract
This paper proposes a concept of creativity that stems from a semiotic and linguistic theoretical perspective, in which the formal frame of reference for variation and linguistic change considers and evaluates both the process of general interaction and the contact of languages as a global phenomenon. This method proposes an analysis of creativity that ranges from reflections of ancient philosophy to a contemporary linguistic perspective, incorporates international ideologies, and identifies, within the dimensions of use and social sharing, the principle capable of guiding potentially unlimited forms of linguistic creativity that are self-expressive and communicative, far beyond the grammatical patterns of regularity and norm. Interpreting the paradigm of creativity according to this model means placing the semiotic property in a position of prima inter pares, entrusted not only with the “role” of forming signs (words, sentences, texts), but the function of arbitraire, as a phenomenon of language creation. The following reading references the semiotic contribution of Tullio De Mauro, an Italian linguist who has contributed to the systematization of creativity, overcoming and synthesizing both Saussurian structuralism and Chomskyan generativism.
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Artikel in diesem Heft
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- The good sense of Umberto Eco and the common sense of the Echian Encyclopaedia
- Elements of language creativity
- A walk through the history of Spanish thought influenced by Uexküll
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Research Articles
- The role of schemas and scripts in pictorial narration
- The good sense of Umberto Eco and the common sense of the Echian Encyclopaedia
- Elements of language creativity
- A walk through the history of Spanish thought influenced by Uexküll
- A semiotic theory of memory: between movement and form*
- Stylistique et herméneutique des œuvres littéraires : pour une approche intégrative, via la notion de « stylisation »
- Vers une sémiotique sadienne
- Distant time, distant gesture: speech and gesture correlate to express temporal distance
- Splits on Instagram: a case study of young adults’ selfies
- The degree zero of digital interfaces: a semiotics of audiovisual archives online
- Personality and climate change mitigation: a psychological and semiotic exploration of the sustainable choices of optimists
- Semiotic hybridization in Persian poetry and Iranian music
