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"The Rotation Gets Thick. The Constraints Get Thin": Creativity, Recontextualization, and Difference
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Direct linkPennycook, Alastair – Applied Linguistics, 2007
This paper explores the implications of looking at creativity in terms of repeated sameness rather than observable difference. Drawing on insights from hip-hop culture that focus on sampling as creativity, and looking in particular at philosophies of difference that make iterability and performativity central, this paper opens up a discussion of…
Descriptors: Intellectual History, Creativity, Language Variation, Applied Linguistics
