Creativity and discourse

Abstract

This paper will consider the relationship between discourse analysis and creativity and elucidate the ways in which a discourse analytical approach to creativity might be distinguished from the 'language and creativity' approaches which currently dominate applied linguistics and sociolinguistics. In the 'discourse and creativity' approach I will be describing, creativity is located not in language per se, but in the strategic ways people use language in concrete situations in order to stimulate social change. I will explore how aspects of this approach are reflected in work carried out within the paradigm of world Englishes.

Bilingual creativity in Saudi stand‐up comedy

“…According to Jones (), research on bilingual creativity generally falls into two approaches based on its focus: the product focus and the process focus. The first approach investigates the creatively mixed linguistic resources from one or more languages while being mainly concerned with a specific text's formal features and linguistic peculiarities.…”

“…It is mainly focused on the ordinary everyday linguistic interchanges that are extraordinary in expressing novelty of thought and being far from mundane (Carter ). Many scholars adopt this approach to investigate different varieties of English, such as Osakwe (), who examined Yoruba English; Baker (), who investigated differences in rhetorical and literary styles in a number of WE varieties; and Jones (), who explored the relationship between discourse analysis and creativity within the WE paradigm.…”

Why is it difficult to design innovative IT? : An agential realist study of designing IT for healthcare innovation

“…"socially informed systems of knowing, being and acting" including "words, acts, values, beliefs, attitudes, and social identities". Drawing on Foucault, R. Jones (2010Jones ( , 2014 argues that discourses control and constrain our thinking, actions and creativity.…”

“…structuration theory and other dialectical practice theories). For instance, discourses change from our ongoing social practices (R. Jones, 2010Jones, , 2014 and technological frames change from actors' interaction with each other and technologies (Meyer & Schubert, 2007). Similarly, the path dependency concept is accompanied by the concept path creation (Garud & Karnøe, 2001).…”

Linguistic Creativity: A View from the Periphery of the Serbian Linguistic Space

“…Do the Koe ima po grad texts and Southentik Crew's lyrics, based on the strategic combination of various discourses that allows for the reappropriation and relocalization of the dialects of Leskovac and Vlasotince, have the potential to open up possibilities for "the imagining of new kinds of social identities and new kinds of social practices" (Jones 2010a)? The authors of these texts, through a complex relationship with the centralist nationallyframed language ideology that demotes the local dialect to the level of funny, bizarre, rural, low-culture and backward, manage through the combination of dialect with recognizable genres and discourses to take the local idiom out of its fixed ideological frame, "normalize" it, and make it appropriate for use in diverse realms of communication.…”