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Widdowson, H. G. – Applied Linguistics, 2008
The current renewal of interest in language creativity raises a number of intriguing problems, as is evident from the stimulating papers in the recent special issue of "Applied Linguistics". According to the editors of this issue, however, these papers are not concerned with creativity in a general pragmatic sense but more specifically with poetic…
Descriptors: Creativity, Speech Acts, Interpersonal Communication, Applied Linguistics