1st Edition

Discourse and Creativity

By Rodney Jones Copyright 2012
264 Pages
by Routledge

264 Pages
by Routledge

264 Pages
by Routledge

Discourse and Creativity examines the way different approaches to discourse analysis conceptualize the notion of creativity and address it analytically. It includes examples of studies of creativity from a variety of traditions and examines the following key areas, how people interpret and use discourse, the processes and practices of discourse production, discourse in modes other... Read more

1. Introduction: Discourse and Creativity

Rodney H. Jones

 

 

 

SECTION ONE: Literary Creativity

 

2. Literary Creativity

Michael Toolan

 

3. Ethics and imagination in literary reading

Peter Stockwell

 

4. Creative interpretations: Discourse analysis and literary reading

Joan Swann

 

 

 

SECTION TWO: Creativity in Professional Communication

 

5. Creative exploitation of socio-pragmatic space in professional

discourse

Vijay K. Bhatia

 

6. Creative collaboration in the public relations industry

Rodney H. Jones, Vijay K. Bhatia, Stephen Bremner, Anne Peirson-Smith

 

 

 

SECTION THREE: Multimodal Creativity

 

7. Creativity in pictorial and multimodal advertising metaphors

Charles Forceville

 

8. Design, production and creativity

Theo van Leeuwen

 

9. The creation of a community artist in everyday life: Long-duration

process and creative actions

Sigrid Norris

 

 

 

SECTION FOUR: Discourse, Creativity and Technology

 

10. Determined creativity: Language play in new media discourse

Crispin Thurlow

 

11. Archeology in a virtual world: Schome Park

Julia Gillen

 

12. Designing location-based mobile fiction: the case of NarraHand

Andrew Morrison, Henry Mainsah, Idunn Sem, Martin Havnør

 

13. Skating across timescales: Creativity in dynamical systems

Rodney H. Jones

Biography

Rodney Jones is the Associate Head of the Department of English at the City University of Hong Kong.