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Creativity in English as a Lingua Franca: Idiom and Metaphor 2 by Pitzl, Marie-Luise is a language learning available to read on EtoBox.
What is Creativity in English as a Lingua Franca: Idiom and Metaphor 2 about?
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.
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It is typically read by students working through coursework and study material.
Common subject areas: STEM, medicine, law, business.
- Author
- Pitzl, Marie-Luise
- Publisher
- De Gruyter Mouton, Walter de Gruyter GmbH
- Published
- 2018
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781501510083
- Category
- language learning
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Language Learning, Sociolinguistics
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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