Language and Creativity

<p>Creativity in language has conventionally been regarded as the preserve of institutionalised discourses such as literature and advertising and individual gifted minds. Drawing on a range of real examples of everyday conversations and speech from flatmates in a student house and families on holiday to psychotherapy sessions and chat-lines the book argues that creativity is an all-pervasive feature of everyday language. In this groundbreaking book Ronald Carter builds on the previous theories of creativity and offers a radical contribution to linguistic literary and cultural theory. A must for anyone interested in the creativity of our everyday speech. </p>