Linguistic Creativity : Rule-Governed or Rule-Breaking ?

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Jan 2017 English Publisher:PERSEE ProgramJournal:Recherches anglaises et nord-américaines, volume 50, pages 69-80 (issn: 0557-6989,

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Authors: Lecercle, Jean-Jacques;

doi: 10.3406/ranam.2017.1549

Linguistic Creativity : Rule-Governed or Rule-Breaking ?

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The essay starts from a proposition taken as an axiom : the centre of the practice of language is the dialectic of rule-governed and rule-breaking creativity. The dialectic is introduced at the levels of the sentence, of a natural language, of discourse and of literary genres. It is observed, through a consideration of linguistic change, formulaic language and a number of “grammatical errors.” Lastly, it is explained by recourse to Norbert Elias’s symbol theory.

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