Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 1501510088
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
This book investigates formal characteristics and discourse functions of linguistic creativity at the level of idioms in spoken ELF as represented in the Vienna-Oxford International Corpus of English (VOICE). Building on the findings of previous ELF research, the book proposes that creativity might serve as a fundamental concept in accounting for the variation that seems to be central to describing and understanding English as a lingua franca.