(Ebook) Creativity in English as a Lingua Franca: Idiom and Metaphor by Marie-Luise Pitzl ISBN 9781501516887, 9781501510083, 9781501510038, 1501516884, 1501510088, 1501510037

(Ebook) Creativity in English as a Lingua Franca: Idiom and Metaphor by Marie-Luise Pitzl ISBN 9781501516887, 9781501510083, 9781501510038, 1501516884, 1501510088, 1501510037

Creativity in English as a Lingua Franca: Idiom and Metaphor, First Edition 2018Main subject categories: • Sociolinguistics • Historical & Comparative Linguistics • English as the Lingua FrancaThe unprecedented use of English as an international lingua franca, largely because of its relationship with the processes of globalisation, has led to the realization that conventional attitudes to English and approaches to its study need to be critically examined. This has resulted in a very considerable and fast-growing field of research that is concerned both with the sociolinguistic significance of English as lingua franca as a naturally adaptive linguistic development and with its theoretical as well as applied linguistic implications. ELF, as phenomenon and as study, is not only diverse and emergent, it is also controversial and rapidly gaining in importance.The purpose of the series is to offer a wide forum for work on ELF, including aspects such as descriptions and analyses of ELF; ELF use in a range of domains including education (primary, secondary and tertiary), business, tourism; conceptual works challenging current assumptions about English use and usage; works exploring the implications of ELF for English language policy, pedagogy, and practice; and ELF in relation to global multilingualism.Authors are not required to use native English, but to write in a way that is intelligible to a wide international readership. To our knowledge, this is the first book series to build this approach into its official policy.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.